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Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship

Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing

Zalfa Feghali author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:16th Apr '19

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Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghalicrafts a sophisticated theoretical framework to theorise how the act of reading can contribute to the queering of contemporary citizenship in North America. Providing sensitive and convincing readings of work by both popular and niche authors, including Gloria Anzaldúa, Dorothy Allison, Gregory Scofield, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Erín Moure, Junot Díaz, and Yann Martel, this book is the first to not only read these authors together, but also to discuss how each powerfully resists the exclusionary work of state-sanctioned citizenship in the U.S. and Canada. This book convincingly draws connections between queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies and sheds light on how these connections can reframe our understanding of American Studies.

ISBN: 9781784993092

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 14mm

Weight: 399g

216 pages