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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
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (259)
Includes Goodreads
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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