Crossing borders and queering citizenship : civic reading practice in contemporary American and Canadian writing /: civic reading practice in contemporary American and Canadian writing. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Zalfa Feghali.
• Authors: Feghali, Zalfa
• Contents: Introduction: why queer(y) citizenship?; 1. Reading: an act of queering citizenship; 2. Autobiographical acts of reading and the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Dorothy Allison; 3. Métis and two-spirit vernaculars and the writing of Gregory Scofield; 4. Performing the border and queer rasquachismo in Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s performance art; 5. The antianaesthetic and ‘a community of readers’ in Erín Moure’s O Cidadán ; 6. Reading for hemispheric citizenship in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ; Conclusion: Yann Martel’s lonely book club; Bibliography
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 810.9; American literature -- History and criticism; Canadian literature -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526134479; 9781526134462
• Related ISBNs: 9781784993092
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