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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being
Amy Fung
- 184 pages
- English
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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being
Amy Fung
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Harbour
- Sprawl
- The Bridge
- Treaties 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10
- The Cairn
- Choke
- Witness
- The Tour
- The Island
- Difficult People
- 375
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Reading List
- Dedication
- Colophon