Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship - Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing Feghali ZalfaPevná vazba
Can reading make us better citizens? This book sheds light on how the act of reading can be mobilised as a powerful civic tool in service of contemporary civil and political struggles for minority…
Specifikacia Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship - Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing Feghali ZalfaPevná vazba
Can reading make us better citizens? This book sheds light on how the act of reading can be mobilised as a powerful civic tool in service of contemporary civil and political struggles for minority recognition, rights, and representation in North America.Drawing on queer theory, studies of citizenship, postcolonial theory, active reading, and border studies, this book closely reads the work of American, Canadian, and Indigenous authors including Gloria Anzald a, Dorothy Allison, Gregory Scofield, Guillermo G mez-Pe a, Er n Moure, and Yann Martel to offer new ways of thinking about citizenship in the United States and Canada. Crossing borders and queering citizenship is interdisciplinary in its approach and wide-ranging in its subject matter, discussing Chicana/o literature and performance, writing from the white trash community in the U.S South, Indigenous