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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being: Volume 7
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Series: Essais
Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies
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ISBN13: 9781771665056
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Published: May 15 2019
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of 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 essay 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
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