Full Description
Versions of Jacki Huggins's 'Pretty deadly tidda business' have appeared in Hecate vol. 17, no. 1; 1991, I lndyk, ed.; Memory (Southerly 3, 1991) HarperCollins, Sydney, 1991; Second Degree Tampering, Sybylla Feminist Press, Melbourne, 1992. Laleen Jayamanne's 'Love me tender, love me true ... ' was first published in Framework 38139, 1992. A version of Smaro Kamboureli's 'Of black angels and melancholy lovers' appeared in Freelance (Saskatchewan Writers' Guild), xxi, 5 (Dec. 1991-Jan. 1992). Roxana Ng's 'Sexism, racism and Canadian nationalism' appeared in Race, Class, Gender: Bonds and Barriers, Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes: A Canadian Annual no. 5, 1989. Trinh Minh-ha's 'All-owning spectatorship' has also appeared in her collection of essays When the Moon Waxes Red, Routledge, NY, 1991.
Contents
Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Contributors -Introduction / Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman -- 1 Feminism and the politics of irreducible differences: Multiculturalism/ethnicity/race / Sneja Gunew -- 2 'Feminisms, reading, postmodernisms': Rethinking complicity / Vicki Kirby -- 3 'Authentic voice': Anti-racist politics in Canadian feminist publishing and literary production / Daiva Stasiulis --4 Pretty deadly tidda business / Jackie Huggins -- 5 'Love me tender, love me true, never let me go . A Sri Lankan reading of Tracey Moffatt's Night / Cries-A Rural Tragedy Laleen Jayamanne -- 6 Changing contexts: Globalization, migration and feminism in New Zealand / Wendy Larner -- 7 Colonizing women: The maternal body and empire / Margaret jolly -- 8 Timing differences and investing in futures in multicultural (women's) writing / Efi Hatzimanolis -- 9 Of black angels and melancholy lovers: Ethnicity and writing in Canada / Smaro Kamboureli -- 10 All-owning spectatorship / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- 11 Little girls were little boys: Displaced femininity in the representation of homosexuality in Japanese girls' comics / Midori Matsui -- 12 Sexism, racism and Canadian nationalism / Roxana Ng - 13 Slash and suture: Post/colonialism in 'Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza' / Annamarie ]agose -- 14 Voice and representation in the politics of difference / Anna Yeatman - Index.
