Asian Canadian communal literary enterprise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929850 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhen Liu (0000-0002-8440-2554, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-103 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-8078 • E-ISSN: 0269-9222 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/bjcs.2018.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2800035618 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article discusses how contemporary Asian Canadian literature was established at the end of the 1970s and developed with internal support from the members of the Japanese Canadian and Chinese Canadian communities in particular. I argue that the Asian Canadian literary enterprise was created and supported by communal efforts, and especially by the publication of magazines and anthologies. Communal grassroots magazines were efficient in mobilising Asian Canadian activism in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They also provided space for writers to explore various methods and aspects of self-expression and thus shaped a distinctive Asian Canadian consciousness. At the same time, they faced practical challenges which can be directly related to the political and cultural climate of late twentieth-century Canada. Anthologies not only announced the birth of contemporary Asian Canadian literature but also recorded and celebrated its various stages of development
Art · Ethnology · Grassroots · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |