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Can reading make us better citizens? In Crossing borders and queering citizenship, Feghali crafts 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 Anzaldua, Dorothy Allison, Gregory Scofield, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Erin Moure, Junot Diaz, 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.

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Author:   Zalfa Feghali
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.259kg
ISBN:  

9781526163936

ISBN 10:   1526163934
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   26 July 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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. Métis and two-spirit vernaculars and 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 Bibliography -- .

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Zalfa Feghali is a Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Leicester.

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