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OverviewIn 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's 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's sense of place and identity Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy FungPublisher: Book*hug Imprint: Book*hug Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.231kg ISBN: 9781771665056ISBN 10: 177166505 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 07 May 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsMoving effortlessly from personal anecdote to unsettling recognition of her own complicity to disturbing insight and political statement, Fung's testimony is essential reading. --John Yau, Hyperallergic Moving effortlessly from personal anecdote to unsettling recognition of her own complicity to disturbing insight and political statement, Fung's testimony is essential reading. John Yau, Hyperallergic Author InformationAMY FUNGis 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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