Fung, Amy, author.

Before I was a critic I was a human being / Amy Fung.

First edition.

Toronto : Book*hug Press ; Vancouver : Artspeak, 2019.
©2019

181 pages ; 21 cm

Essais ; no. 7

"'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."-- Provided by publisher.

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Immigrants Canada.
Indigenous peoples Land tenure Canada.
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Autochtones Terres Canada.
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Canada Colonization.
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Artspeak Gallery, issuing body.
Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 7.

Location: Library main 309330
Call No.: BIB 254602
Status: Available