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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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. -- .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Zalfa Feghali
• Con la collaborazione di: Sharon Monteith (Editore)
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781784993092
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-309-2
• Pagine: 216
• Serie: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Cana
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; USA, Canada, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gay & Lesbian studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Civics and citizenship, Literary studies: from c 2000, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, borders; citizenship; North America; queer; reading