Transgressive transcripts : gender and sexuality in contemporary Chinese Canadian women's writing / Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fu, Bennett Yu-Hsiang.

Series:

Cross/Cultures 150.

Cross/cultures ; 150

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Canada--Intellectual life.

Chinese.

Women authors, Chinese--Canada.

Women authors, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi B.V., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transgressive Transcripts examines the construction of women’s subjectivity and the textual production of Canadian female voices orchestrated in history, culture, ethnicity, and sexuality. The book, stressing the dissemination and re-inscription of femaleness and femininity in Chinese Canadian history, employs critical models that defy the sexual/textual imaginary of the Canadian literary scene. Four fields of study are conjoined: feminist theories of the body, gender and sexuality studies, women’s writing, and Asian North Amer¬ican studies. Analysing four writers, SKY Lee, Larissa Lai, Lydia Kwa, and Evelyn Lau, the book anchors its thematic and theoretical concern with female sexuality in the context of Chinese Canadian writing. Feminist narratives and gender politics in contemporary Asian North American literature are highlighted via the trope of ‘transgression’.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Prologue

Spatial Transcript: SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe

Morphological Transcript: Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand

Genealogical Transcript: Lydia Kwa’s This Place Called Absence

Hypersexual Transcript: Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and Inside Out: Reflections on a Life So Far

Epilogue

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-86872-5

94-012-0843-3

OCLC:

823389620

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401208437 DOI