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. -- .
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. -- .Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Zalfa Feghali is a Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Leicester.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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