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Crossing borders and queering citizenship
civic reading practice in contemporary American and Canadian writing
Introduction: why queer(y) citizenship?; Reading: an act of queering citizenship; Autobiographical acts of reading and the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Dorothy Allison; Métis and two-spirit vernaculars in the writing of Gregory Scofield; Performing the border and queer rasquachismo in Guillermo Gómez-Peña's performance art; The antianaesthetic and 'a community of readers' in Erín Moure's O Cidadán; Reading for hemispheric citizenship in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoConclusion: Yann Martel's lonely book club.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-200) and index.
Contemporary American and Canadian writers