Bøger af Larissa Lai

The latest novel by Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu): an epic yet intimate story set during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II.

Salt Fish Girl is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place.

Part exoskeletal enjambment, part shared soft biology, Automaton Biographies wends through creative industries and uncommon commons, picking up the shards of both our latent futures and our Polaroid pasts.Mark Nowak, poetThe first poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand) is a multilayered autobiography that puts an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop music, CNN, and biotechnology, exploring the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of human. Lai, who teaches English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is prominent within the womens, LGBT, and Asian American communities.

The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that momentfrom cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of the statecontinue to resonate for contemporary discussions of race and literature in Canada. Larissa Lai takes up the term Asian Canadian as a term of emergence, in the sense that it is constantly produced differently, and always in relation to other termsoften whiteness but also Indigeneity, queerness, feminism, African Canadian, and Asian American. In the 1980s and 1990s, Asian Canadian erupted in conjunction with the post-structural recognition of the instability of the subject. But paradoxically it also came into being through activist work, and so depended on an imagined stability that never fully materialized. Slanting I, Imagining We interrogates this fraught tension and the relational nature of the term through a range of texts and events, including the Gold Mountain Blues scandal, the conference Writing Thru Race, and the self-writings of Evelyn Lau and Wayson Choy.

An evocative novel that links the lives of a ninth-century poet/nun and a contemporary Asian-American woman.