
Title:
Before I was a critic I was a human being
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
Toronto : Book*hug Press ; Vancouver : Artspeak, 2019.
©2019
Physical Description:
181 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9781771665056
Abstract:
"'In 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.' (from the Introduction). Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of creative 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 piece 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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Language:
English
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