Laughing Back at Empire is a groundbreaking examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic magazines. Wong’s work amplifies Asian Canadian voices that speak, shout, and laugh together at empire’s self-congratulatory and exclusionary narratives.
Authors
- Pages
- 200
- Published in
- Winnipeg, CA
- Rights
- Angie Wong
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Foreword by Cheuk Kwan 8
- Found Poem by Terry Watada 10
- Introduction. Then and Now: The Asianadian and the Radical Spirit of Community Care 14
- Chapter 1. “Yellow History Is Big” 35
- Chapter 2. The First of Its Kind: The Asianadian and the Asianadian Resource Workshop 68
- Chapter 3. Laughing at the Dubious Nation: Canada on the Firing Line 105
- Chapter 4. Hybridity and Resistance in Theory and Practice: Coalition Building, Silence Breaking, Turns and Returns to History 126
- Conclusion. Gum San Sits on the Turtle’s Back: Writing for Posterity and the Future of the Movement 146
- Acknowledgements 154
- Notes 156
- Bibliography 170
- Index 178
