Transgressive Transcripts

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Women’s Writing
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3568-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 150, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

Transgressive Transcripts examines the construction of women’s subjectivity and the textual production of Canadian female voices orchestrated in history, culture, ethnicity, and sexuality. The book, stressing the dissemination and re-inscription of femaleness and femininity in Chinese Canadian history, employs critical models that defy the sexual/textual imaginary of the Canadian literary scene. Four fields of study are conjoined: feminist theories of the body, gender and sexuality studies, women’s writing, and Asian North Amer¬ican studies. Analysing four writers, SKY Lee, Larissa Lai, Lydia Kwa, and Evelyn Lau, the book anchors its thematic and theoretical concern with female sexuality in the context of Chinese Canadian writing. Feminist narratives and gender politics in contemporary Asian North American literature are highlighted via the trope of ‘transgression’.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Spatial Transcript: SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café
Morphological Transcript: Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand
Genealogical Transcript: Lydia Kwa’s This Place Called Absence
Hypersexual Transcript: Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and Inside Out: Reflections on a Life So Far
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index