Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women's Fiction of the 1990s

Abstract

Trans.Through.Beyond (A Review Essay)This is a book about the intersection of gender and race in Canadian writing of the 1990s and since. It is indebted to the work of critics like Roy Miki (2001), Larissa Lai (2004), Lily Cho (2007), Guy Beauregard (2008), and Christl Verduyn and Eleanor Ty (2008, all of whom have identified, from an array of different positions, the dangers of the normalization and/or appropriation of difference by the literary and cultural institutions and market forces. Transnational Poetics stems from those critical positions and, by offering a material reading of recent Asian Canadian women's texts, contributes its own voice to the debates about the need to maintain resistance discourses that problematize the institutionalization of racial and gender difference.