Table of Contents
- Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, edited by
Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn
- Introduction
- I. Theoretical Challenges and Praxis
- The Politics of the Beyond: 43 Theses on Autoethnography and
Complicity Smaro Kamboureli
- Autoethnography Otherwise: Challenging Poetics and Re-Meaning
Race in Fred Wah's Creative Critical Writing Paul Lai
- Tides of Belonging: Reconfiguring the Autoethnographic Paradigm
in Shani Mootoo's He Drown She in the Sea Kristina Kyser
- II. Generic Transformations
- Strategizing the Body of History: Anxious Writing, Absent
Subjects, and Marketing the Nation Larissa Lai
- The Politics of Gender and Genre in Asian Canadian Women's
Speculative Fiction: Hiromi Goto and Larissa Lai Pilar
Cuder-Domínguez
- ""auto-hyphen-ethno-hyphen-graphy"": Fred Wah's
Creative-Critical Writing Joanne Saul
- III. Artistic/Textual/Bodily Politics
- Troubling the Mosaic: Larissa Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand,
Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, and Representations of
Social Differences Christine Kim
- Ken Lum, Paul Wong, and the Aesthetics of Multiculturalism Ming
Tiampo
- Potent Textuality: Laiwan's Cyborg Poetics Tara Lee
- IV. Global Affiliations
- ""Do not exploit me again and again"": Queering Autoethnography
in Suniti Namjoshi's Goja: An Autobiographical Myth Eva C.
Karpinski
- An Ethnos of Difference, a Praxis of Inclusion: The Ethics of
Global Citizenship in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night Miriam
Pirbhai
- Ying Chen's ""Poetic Rebellion"": Relocating the Dialogue, In
Search of Narrative Renewal Christine Lorre
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Contributors' Bios
- Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is Associate Professor of English at the
University of Huelva (Spain), where she teaches British and
English-Canadian Literature. Her research interests are the
intersections of gender, genre, nation, and race. She is the author
of Margaret Atwood: A Beginner's Guide (2003), and the (co)-editor
of five collections of essays (La mujer del texto al contexto,
1996; Exilios femeninos, 2000; Sederi XI, 2002; Espacios de Género,
2005; and The Female Wits, 2006). She has been visiting scholar at
universities in Canada and the United States: McGill (1997),
Dalhousie (1999), Northwestern (2002), and Toronto (2004). Her
current research deals with Canadian women's transnational
poetics.
- Smaro Kamboureli is Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies
in Canadian Literature at the University of Guelph and the Director
of the TransCanada Institute. Her publications include Scandalous
Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada and a new edition of
Making a Difference: Multicultural Literatures in English.
- Eva C. Karpinski teaches women's life writing, cultural
studies, and feminist theory in the School of Womens Studies at
York University in Toronto. Her research interests include
postmodernist fiction, immigrant autobiography, translation
studies, and feminist ethics. She has published articles on John
Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Raymond Federman, and Eva Hoffman. She is
the editor of Pens of Many Colours, an anthology of Canadian
multicultural writing. Her article on Angela Carter won the best
essay award from Utopian Studies in 2001.
- Christine Kim is Assistant Professor of English at Simon Fraser
University. Her teaching and research focus on contemporary
Canadian literature, feminist theory, print culture and publishing,
and diasporic writing. She has published articles in Mosaic, Open
Letter, and Studies in Canadian Literature and has an essay
forthcoming in Essays on Canadian Writing.
- Kristina Kyser is an instructor of Canadian literature at the
University of Toronto, where she completed her doctorate in 2004.
Her research and teaching interests include literature and ethics
and postcolonial theory. She is also interested in
interdisciplinary approaches to Canadian literature from the
perspectives of philosophy, religious studies, and political
science. She has published or presented papers on Michael Ondaatje,
Thomas King, Rohinton Mistry, and Yann Martel. She is currently
revising her book-length study, Swallowed by the Whale: Bible and
Nation in English-Canadian Writing, for publication.
- Larissa Lai is Assistant Professor of English at the University
of British Columbia. She is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a
Thousand and Salt Fish Girl. Her research interests include race,
memory, subjectivity, globalization, sexuality, labour, cyborgs,
strategy, and borders.
- Paul Lai teaches Asian American literature at the University of
St. Thomas in Minnesota. He is researching a project on sound and
Asian American cultures. His work considers Asian American Studies
as a pedagogical practice, an institutional presence, and a
theoretical space for addressing social issues. His work explores
how things like anthologies, music websites, and comedy routines
link screams, cries, melodies, accents, and other sounds to Asian
American identities and politics.
- Tara Lee holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Simon Fraser
University. Her teaching interests are in Canadian literature and
ethnic minority writing. She has published articles on Asian
Canadian literature and identity in journals such as West Coast
Line, Dandelion, and Cultural Studies Review.
- Christine Lorre is an Assistant Professor of English at
Université Paris III--Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her teaching interests are
in American studies, literature in English, and translation. She
has published articles in journals edited in France (Etudes
canadiennes / Canadian Studies, Commonwealth, Journal of the Short
Story in English / Cahiers de la nouvelle, Lisa) and as chapters in
books published in France (Lectures d'une œuvre: The Handmaid's
Tale, Margaret Atwood, Editions du Temps; Les Amériques et le
Pacifique, Université Rennes 2) and in Canada (Vision / Division
dans l'œuvre de Nancy Huston, Presses de l'Université
d'Ottawa).
- Mariam Pirbhai is an Assistant Professorin the Department of
English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo,
Ontario, where she teaches Post-Colonial Literatures and Theory.
Her publications includearticles on Indo-Caribbean
Literature,Post-Colonial Theory,Multicultural Writing in Canada,
and onliteraryfigures such as Salman Rushdie. She is presently
working on a book-length study of the theoretical and
socio-historical intersections between indentured labourand slavery
in Caribbean writing.
- Joanne Saul teaches English and Canadian Studies at the
University of Toronto. She is author of Writing the Roaming
Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature (University of Toronto
Press, 2006). She is also co-owner of the independent bookstore
TYPE Books in Toronto.
- Ming Tiampo is an Assistant Professor of Art History at
Carleton University in Ottawa. Her research examines questions of
cultural translation and transmission in an international context,
concentrating on Japan's relations with the West as well as
pluralism in Canada. Her current projects include an exhibition on
pluralism in Canada, as well as a book that considers the Japanese
avant-garde art movement Gutai in a transnational context. She has
published and given papers in Japan, Europe, the United States, and
Canada, and in 2004-5 was the curator of the award-winning
exhibition ""Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954-1968"" at the
Grey Art Gallery in New York and at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art
Gallery in Vancouver. She is a founding member of the Centre for
Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) at Carleton.
- Eleanor Ty is Professor and Chair of English & Film Studies at
Wilfrid Laurier University. Author of The Politics of the Visible
in Asian North American Narratives (University of Toronto Press,
2004), Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson,
Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796&0150;1812 (University of
Toronto Press, 1998), and Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women
Novelists of the 1790s (University of Toronto Press, 1993), she has
edited Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Oxford 1996) and The Victim of
Prejudice (Broadview 1994) by Mary Hays and has co-edited with
Donald Goellnicht a collection of essays, Asian North American
Identities Beyond the Hyphen (Indiana University Press, 2004). She
has published essays on Michael Ondaatje, on Joy Kogawa, on Jamaica
Kincaid, on reading romances, on Exotica, and on Miss Saigon.
- Christl Verduyn is Professor of Canadian Studies and Canadian
literature at Mount Allison University. She publishes on Canadian
and Québécois women's writing and criticism, multiculturalism and
minority writing, life writing, and interdisciplinary approaches to
literature. Recent books include Identity, Community, Nation:
Essays on Canadian Writing (with D. Schaub, 2002), Marian Engel:
Life in Letters (with K. Garay, 2004), and Must Write: Edna
Staebler's Diaries (2005). Her 1995 study Lifelines: Marian Engel's
Writings received the Gabrielle Roy Book Prize.
About the Author
Eleanor Ty is a professor and chair of the Department of
English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario.
She is the author of The Politics of the Visible in Asian North
American Narratives and co-editor with Donald Goellnicht of Asian
North American Identities beyond the Hyphen.
Christl Verduyn is a professor of English and Canadian
Studies at Mount Allison University, where she holds the Davidson
Chair in Canadian Studies and is the director of the Centre for
Canadian Studies. Most recent publications include Asian Canadian
Writing Beyond Autoethnography, co-edited with Eleanor Ty (WLU
Press, 2008), Archival Narratives for Canada: Re-Telling Stories in
a Changing Landscape, co-edited with Kathleen Garay (2011), and
Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis, co-edited with Jane
Koustas (2012).
Reviews
"The essay collection is noteworthy in its comprehensive analysis
of a diverse range of literary texts, and analysis that involves a
critical examination of autoethnographic writing in its complicity
with and departures from representations of otherness." -- Ranbir
K. Banwait -- Canadian Literature 204, 201007
"Beyond Autoethnography offers an impressive set of critical
interventions that illustrate the range of scholarship in Asian
Canadian literary studies and will be of great interest to scholars
and students of contemporary Asian Canadian culture." --
Christopher Lee, University of British Columbia -- Pacific Affairs,
Volume 82, no. 2, Summer 2009