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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
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length4 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byAmy Fung
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 5, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
8Choke
2Harbour
9Witness
3Sprawl
10Thetour
4Venture
11Theisland
5Thebridge
12Difficultpeople
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6Treaties
13375
7TheCairn
14Epilogue
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