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TransCanadian Feminist FictionsNew Cross-Border Ethics |
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A cutting-edge feminist study of borders and transnational ethics in Canadian literature since the turn of the twenty-first century.
In this contradictory era of uneven globalization, borders multiply yet fantasies of borderlessness prevail. Particularly since September 11th, this paradox has shaped deeply the lives of border-crossing subjects such as the queer, the refugee, and the activist within and beyond Canadian frontiers.
In search of creative ways to engage with the conundrums related to how borders mould social and bodily space, Libe García Zarranz formulates a new cross-border ethic through post-9/11 feminist and queer transnational writing in Canada. Drawing on material feminism, critical race studies, non-humanist philosophy, and affect theory, she proposes a renewed understanding of relationality beyond the lethal binaries that saturate everyday life. TransCanadian Feminist Fictions considers the corporeal, biopolitical, and affective dimensions of border crossing in the works of Dionne Brand, Emma Donoghue, Hiromi Goto, and Larissa Lai. Intersecting the genres of memoir, fiction, poetry, and young adult literature, García Zarranz shows how these texts address the permeability of boundaries and consider the ethical implications for minoritized populations.
Urging readers to question the proclaimed glamours of globality, TransCanadian Feminist Fictions responds to a time of increasing inequality, mounting racism, and feminist backlash.
In search of creative ways to engage with the conundrums related to how borders mould social and bodily space, Libe García Zarranz formulates a new cross-border ethic through post-9/11 feminist and queer transnational writing in Canada. Drawing on material feminism, critical race studies, non-humanist philosophy, and affect theory, she proposes a renewed understanding of relationality beyond the lethal binaries that saturate everyday life. TransCanadian Feminist Fictions considers the corporeal, biopolitical, and affective dimensions of border crossing in the works of Dionne Brand, Emma Donoghue, Hiromi Goto, and Larissa Lai. Intersecting the genres of memoir, fiction, poetry, and young adult literature, García Zarranz shows how these texts address the permeability of boundaries and consider the ethical implications for minoritized populations.
Urging readers to question the proclaimed glamours of globality, TransCanadian Feminist Fictions responds to a time of increasing inequality, mounting racism, and feminist backlash.
Details
192 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773549555
May 2017
Formats: Cloth, eBook
“The theoretical claims and scholarly goals here are very timely, and situate this book at the leading edge of Canadian literature research, particularly in terms of its positioning of ‘Canadian’ writing in a circuit that includes globalization studies, ‘transCanada’ studies, and queer/feminist writing.” Heather Smyth, University of Waterloo
“Garcia Zarranz has assembled a very strong field of Canadian feminist writers who are interpreted via the conceptual frames of contemporary national and international cultural theorists. It is a central part of the appeal of this study that it situates itself firmly in the twenty-first century. This will be an exceedingly useful text that will help both to situate and to advance debates in Canadian studies.” Sneja Gunew, University of British Columbia
“Garcia Zarranz has assembled a very strong field of Canadian feminist writers who are interpreted via the conceptual frames of contemporary national and international cultural theorists. It is a central part of the appeal of this study that it situates itself firmly in the twenty-first century. This will be an exceedingly useful text that will help both to situate and to advance debates in Canadian studies.” Sneja Gunew, University of British Columbia
Libe García Zarranz is associate professor of Literature in English, Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface: On Borders and Paradoxes xi
Introduction: Corporeality, Biopolitics, Affect: Twenty-First-
Century TransCanadian Fictions 3
PART ONE CROSSING THE BORDERS OF CORPOREALITY
1 Trans-corporeal Materialities: Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries 21
2 Unruly Corporealities: Hiromi Goto’s Hopeful Fictions 35
3 Corporeal Citizenship: Deviant Bodies in Emma Donoghue’s
Room 46
PART TWO BIOPOLITICAL BORDER-CROSSINGS
4 Biopower and Practices of Freedom: Hiromi Goto’s The Water
of Possibility 61
5 The Biocapitalization of the Female Body: Emma Donoghue’s
Historiographic Fictions 77
6 Necropower Assemblages: Dionne Brand’s Inventory 91
PART THREE CROSS-BORDER AFFECTS
7 Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Cross-Border
Pathogeographies 105
8 Affecting the Ethical Imagination: Emma Donoghue’s
Astray 115
9 Hiromi Goto’s Darkest Light: Assembling a New Cross-Border
Ethic 126
CODA
10 “I Dream an Ethic”: Larissa Lai’s Posthuman Borderlands 141
Conclusion: The Borderlands of the Possible 151
Notes 157
Bibliography 165
Index 175
Acknowledgments vii
Preface: On Borders and Paradoxes xi
Introduction: Corporeality, Biopolitics, Affect: Twenty-First-
Century TransCanadian Fictions 3
PART ONE CROSSING THE BORDERS OF CORPOREALITY
1 Trans-corporeal Materialities: Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries 21
2 Unruly Corporealities: Hiromi Goto’s Hopeful Fictions 35
3 Corporeal Citizenship: Deviant Bodies in Emma Donoghue’s
Room 46
PART TWO BIOPOLITICAL BORDER-CROSSINGS
4 Biopower and Practices of Freedom: Hiromi Goto’s The Water
of Possibility 61
5 The Biocapitalization of the Female Body: Emma Donoghue’s
Historiographic Fictions 77
6 Necropower Assemblages: Dionne Brand’s Inventory 91
PART THREE CROSS-BORDER AFFECTS
7 Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Cross-Border
Pathogeographies 105
8 Affecting the Ethical Imagination: Emma Donoghue’s
Astray 115
9 Hiromi Goto’s Darkest Light: Assembling a New Cross-Border
Ethic 126
CODA
10 “I Dream an Ethic”: Larissa Lai’s Posthuman Borderlands 141
Conclusion: The Borderlands of the Possible 151
Notes 157
Bibliography 165
Index 175
