Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being - Couverture souple

Fung, Amy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 177166505X ISBN 13 : 9781771665056

Editeur : Book*hug, 2019

Synopsis

In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn?t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment, I felt like a real Canadian. Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of nonfiction essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada\x27s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a national art critic. Following the tangents of a foreign\-born perspective and the complexities and complicities in participating in ongoing acts of colonial violence, the book as a whole takes the form of a very long land acknowledgement. Taken individually, each essay roots itself in the learning and unlearning process of a first generation settler immigrant as she unfurls each region\x27s sense of place and identity Praise for Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being : ?The hours I\x27ve spent with this knowing and moving book about place and placelessness are among the most valuable of my reading life. Wow, thank you, Amy.\x22\x22 Eileen Myles \x22\x22As an Indigenous\/Haudenosaunee writer and reader, I recognize that Amy Fung\x27s book does not try to convince us that she is a native rights ally but shows us with language how to mould the term ally into a verb.\x22\x22 Janet Rogers, author of Totem Poles and Railroads \x22\x22In this compelling work, Amy Fung breathes life and relevance into criticality. This visitor\x27s guide is integral reading.\x22\x22 Cecily Nicholson, author of Wayside Sang , winner of the Governor General\x27s Literary Award for Poetry.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

AMY FUNG is a writer, researcher and curator born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and spent her formative years in and around Edmonton on Treaty 6 Territory. Her writings have been published and commissioned by national and international publications, galleries, museums, festivals, and journals since 2007. Her multifarious curatorial projects have spanned exhibitions, cinematic and live presentations, as well as discursive events across Canada and abroad. Before I was a Critic I was a Human Being is her first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book*hug
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 177166505X
• ISBN 13: 9781771665056
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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