Slanting I, Imagining We
Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Canadian, Asian
| Author: | Larissa Lai | ISBN: | 9781771120432 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Publication: | July 31, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Larissa Lai |
| ISBN: | 9781771120432 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Publication: | July 31, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Language: | English |
Chapter 6
The Cameras of the World: Race, Subjectivity and the Multitude in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
Larissa Lai
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For present characters who are both deeply abject and radically free of the constraint of Enlightenment subjectivity. The Atwood text returns power tongue-in-cheek to white patriarchy, but the Brand text offers a glimmer of hope in constructing the citizen-subject-reader in historical, bodily and blood kinship with those whom the state, through the logic of exception, seeks to exclude.
Chapter 6
The Cameras of the World: Race, Subjectivity and the Multitude in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
Larissa Lai
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For present characters who are both deeply abject and radically free of the constraint of Enlightenment subjectivity. The Atwood text returns power tongue-in-cheek to white patriarchy, but the Brand text offers a glimmer of hope in constructing the citizen-subject-reader in historical, bodily and blood kinship with those whom the state, through the logic of exception, seeks to exclude.
