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Model Minorities, Models Of Resistance: Native Figures In Asian Canadian Literature, Marie Lo
Model Minorities, Models Of Resistance: Native Figures In Asian Canadian Literature, Marie Lo
English Faculty Publications and Presentations
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In the special Amerasia issue titled “Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel,” editor Henry Yu notes that despite similar thematic concerns in Asian Canadian and Asian American cultural production, works by Asian Canadian artists are also “entangled in broader cultural and political formations that speak to the importance of First Nations struggles” (xviii). The centrality of First Nations struggles in the Canadian political and cultural landscape is reflected in the representation of Native culture in Asian Canadian texts. Though these representations vary, Native presence in works such …
The Currency Of Visibility And The Paratext Of “Evelyn Lau”, Marie Lo
The Currency Of Visibility And The Paratext Of “Evelyn Lau”, Marie Lo
English Faculty Publications and Presentations
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The apparently deracinated nature of Evelyn Lau’s work has rendered her an ambivalent figure in Asian Canadian and Asian American literary studies. Lau’s characters, often racially unmarked, are instead scarred by their longing for human connection, and they drift in and out of generic spaces or cloistered back rooms that are untethered to the specificity of the world outside. Her stories of prostitution, sadomasochism, obsession, and unrequited love do not lend themselves easily to the interpretive frameworks that have characterized Asian American and Asian Canadian literary studies.