Transnational Poetics

Asian Canadian Women's Fiction of the 1990s

Bibliographic Data

ID12920474
AuthorsLibe García Zarranz (0000-0002-6647-284X, University of Alberta, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume7
Issue2
Pages231-232
Publication date2012-11-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/cww/vps025
OpenAlexW1995451999
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Published in 2011, the critical study Transnational Poetics engages with an eclectic assortment of texts by South Asian, Chinese, and Japanese Canadian women writers, mostly from the 1990s. Opening new spaces within the tradition of Asian American literary studies, Transnational Poetics speaks to this now established field of study, particularly within the context of Canadian literature. Drawing on pioneering work in the late 1980s, recent scholarship that includes Eleanor Ty’s Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (2010), the collection Asian Canadian Literature Beyond Autoethnography (2008), and the special issue of the journal Canadian Literature on “Asian Canadian Studies” (Winter 2008) shows how this realm of enquiry has retained its vibrancy through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Transnational Poetics, nonetheless, focuses particularly on those Asian Canadian women writers whose work follows what the British writer Angela Carter describes in her renowned essay “Notes from the Front Line” (1983) as “putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode” (69)

Art · Autoethnography · Context (archaeology · Literary criticism · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Realm · Scholarship · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History

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