Writing, Immigration, and Sex in Dany Laferrière and Kim Thúy. Issue 2 (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tolliver, Julie-Françoise
• Is Part Of: American review of Canadian studies. Volume 50:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 151
• Page End: 164
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Kim Thúy -- Dany Laferrière -- sexualization -- sex industry -- immigrant novel in Quebec; Comparative civilization -- Periodicals; Canada -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Canada -- Periodicals; United States -- Periodicals; 971
• DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2020.1773882
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0272-2011

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Québécois immigrant writers Dany Laferrière's and Kim Thúy's first novels, Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (1985) and Ru (2009), both thematize the process of coming-to-writing and autofiction in parallel with the tropes of the sexualization of the nonwhite "other" in a global (post)colonial context. This article examines Laferrière's and Thúy's starkly different novels to begin to account for the connection between the act of entering literature and the indictment of racial inequality and sexual exploitation.