Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship - Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing

Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America.

List of 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

About the author

Zalfa Feghali is a Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Leicester.

Summary

Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Zalfa Feghali
• Assisted by: Sharon Monteith (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781784993092
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-309-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Cana
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education