Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship: Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing Feghali Zalfa
Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship: Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing Feghali Zalfa Can reading make us better citizens? Providing sensitive and convincing…
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Crossing Borders and Queering Citizenship: Civic Reading Practice in Contemporary American and Canadian Writing Feghali Zalfa
Can reading make us better citizens? Providing sensitive and convincing readings of work by both popular and niche authors, including Gloria Anzalda, Dorothy Allison, Gregory Scofield, Guillermo Gmez-Pea, Ern Moure, Junot Daz, 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. 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.
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 and Canada.