Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being
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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

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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.

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

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2019
May 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
184
Pages
PUBLISHER
Book*hug Press
SELLER
Chicago Review Press, Inc. DBA Independent Publishers Group
SIZE
755.9
KB
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