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TransCanadian Feminist Fictions : New Cross-Border Ethics.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (191 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773549579
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: TransCanadian Feminist FictionsDDC classification:
  • 813/.54099287
LOC classification:
  • PR9184.3 .Z377 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: On Borders and Paradoxes -- Introduction: Corporeality, Biopolitics, Affect. Twenty-First-Century TransCanadian Fictions -- PART ONE: Crossing the Bordersof Corporeality -- 1 Trans-corporeal Materialities Dionne Brand's Ossuaries -- 2 Unruly Corporealities Hiromi Goto's Hopeful Fictions -- 3 Corporeal Citizenship Deviant Bodies in Emma Donoghue's Room -- PART TWO: Biopolitical Border-Crossings -- 4 Biopower and Practices of Freedom Hiromi Goto's The Water of Possibility -- 5 The Biocapitalization of the Female Body Emma Donoghue's Historiographic Fictions -- 6 Necropower Assemblages Dionne Brand's Inventory -- PART THREE: Cross-Border Affects -- 7 Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return Cross-Border Pathogeographies -- 8 Affecting the Ethical Imagination Emma Donoghue's Astray -- 9 Hiromi Goto's Darkest Light Assembling a New Cross-Border Ethic -- Coda -- 10 "I Dream an Ethic" Larissa Lai's Posthuman Borderlands -- Conclusion: The Borderlands of the Possible -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A cutting-edge feminist study of borders and transnational ethics in Canadian literature since the turn of the twenty-first century.
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: On Borders and Paradoxes -- Introduction: Corporeality, Biopolitics, Affect. Twenty-First-Century TransCanadian Fictions -- PART ONE: Crossing the Bordersof Corporeality -- 1 Trans-corporeal Materialities Dionne Brand's Ossuaries -- 2 Unruly Corporealities Hiromi Goto's Hopeful Fictions -- 3 Corporeal Citizenship Deviant Bodies in Emma Donoghue's Room -- PART TWO: Biopolitical Border-Crossings -- 4 Biopower and Practices of Freedom Hiromi Goto's The Water of Possibility -- 5 The Biocapitalization of the Female Body Emma Donoghue's Historiographic Fictions -- 6 Necropower Assemblages Dionne Brand's Inventory -- PART THREE: Cross-Border Affects -- 7 Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return Cross-Border Pathogeographies -- 8 Affecting the Ethical Imagination Emma Donoghue's Astray -- 9 Hiromi Goto's Darkest Light Assembling a New Cross-Border Ethic -- Coda -- 10 "I Dream an Ethic" Larissa Lai's Posthuman Borderlands -- Conclusion: The Borderlands of the Possible -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A cutting-edge feminist study of borders and transnational ethics in Canadian literature since the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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