Description:
Examines the representation of masculinities in the work of some of Canada's most exciting writers, including Michael Ondaatje, and Rohinton Mistry, to show how cross-cultural migration disrupts assumed codes for masculine behaviour and practice.
Brief description: Daniel Coleman is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
Review Quotes:
'Masculine Migrations is an important and compelling book. By introducing a reflexive erotics of reading that sets the personal into dialogue with the critical, Dan Coleman makes the stakes of an ethically responsible criticism clear. His focus on "cross-cultural refractions" shifts the terms of debate through which masculinity, multiculturalism, and postcolonialism have been understood in Canada, moving analysis away from identity politics towards complex processes of identification. This book is a pleasure to read, and it may change how critics of literature write about their reading in the future.'
--Diana Brydon, University of Guelph'In Masculine Migrations Dan Coleman seeks a critical language that can begin to engage with the fact of enduring white male privilege in an increasingly multicultural national literature. This book comprises a genuine attempt to negotiate the violent dialectics of pro-feminist masculinism and white postcolonialism, and to use those negotiations as a way of reading a rapidly changing world.'
--Stephen Slemon, University of Alberta