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Crossing borders and queering citizenship : Civic reading practice in contemporary American and Canadian writing /

Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in conte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Feghali, Zalfa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgements -- Introduction : why queer(y) citizenship? -- 1. Reading : an act of queering citizenship -- 2. Autobiographical acts of reading and the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Dorothy Allison -- 3. Metis and two-spirit vernaculars in the writing of Gregory Scofield -- 4. Performing the border and queer rasquachismo in Guillermo Gómez-Peña's performance art -- 5. The antianaesthetic and 'a community of readers' in Erín Moure's O Cidadán -- 6. Reading for hemispheric citizenship in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Conclusion: Yann Martel's lonely book club. 
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