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Before I was a critic I was a human being
First edition.
Fung, Amy, author.
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Book*hug Press ; |
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2019. |
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181 pages ; |
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9781771665056 |
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1 copy available at The King's University Library.
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| PS 8611 U64 B44 2019 |
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.:Place Hold
Before I was a critic I was a human being
First edition.
Fung, Amy, author.
.:Place Hold
Before I was a critic I was a human being
First edition.
Fung, Amy, author.
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Personal Author:
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Fung, Amy, author.
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Uniform title:
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[Essays. Selections.]
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Title:
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Before I was a critic I was a human being / Amy Fung.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Publication:
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Toronto : Book*hug Press ; Vancouver : Artspeak, 2019.
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Copyright date:
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©2019
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Physical description:
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181 pages ; 21 cm.
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text txt
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unmediated n
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volume nc
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Series Added Entry-U:
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Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 7.
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Subject term:
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Immigrants--Canada.
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Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Canada.
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Geographic term:
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Canada--Colonization.
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Genre index term:
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Essays.
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references (page 181).
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Summary:
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"'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.' (from the Introduction). Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of creative 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 piece 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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Series Statement:
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(Essais ; no. 7)
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Added Entry-Corporat:
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Artspeak Gallery, issuing body.
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ISBN:
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9781771665056 paperback
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ISBN:
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177166505X paperback
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8707860
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