Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, and Sonia Villegas-Lopez, eds., Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s

Abstract

While literature written by Canadians of Asian ancestry dates back to the late nineteenth century (notably by the Eaton sisters writing under the pen names of Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna), the self-conscious organization of such texts into the category of Asian Canadian literature is a more recent historical phenomenon intimately connected to community-based movements in Vancouver and Toronto and elsewhere in the 1970s. Some of the most widely discussed Asian Canadian literary texts, such a...