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Transgressive Transcripts : Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Women's Writing

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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 American 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'.

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  • ISBN-13: 9789042035683
  • ISBN-10: 9042035684
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publish Date: January 2012
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.1 x 0.44 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
  • Page Count: 178

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