Emergent Critical Strategies Against the Nation- Trap: The Digitization of Literary Apocalyptic Affects and Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu

Abstract

Focused on interrogating the ways in which twenty-first century writing in Canada is currently approached critically and theoretically, this article proposes new reading methods that expose the influence of nation-state powers over literary productions. In particular, this article takes up Larissa Lai’s dynamic, post-apocalyptic novel, The Tiger Flu, as a case study to examine these ideas by using digital tools. It studies the novel’s reflections on gender, sexuality, and technology within re-imagined