Faces of Immigrant Fatherhood: Portrayal of Immigrant Fathers in Selected Asian-Canadian Diasporic Fiction

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Joanna Antoniak

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Rok wydania:2024 Nr wydania:Wydanie pierwsze Liczba stron:200 ISBN:978-83-231-5247-7 eISBN:978-83-231-5248-4 Format:226 x 158 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12775/978-83-231-5248-4

OPIS Joanna Antoniak, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She is the author of numerous articles focusing on diasporic literature, which constitutes the main focus of her academic pursuits. Her other academic interests include depictions of masculinity in literature and media, postcolonial literature, and Brexlit.

Faces of Immigrant Fatherhood is an attempt to determine how immigrant families – and immigrant fathers in particular – are portrayed in the late twentieth-century Asian-Canadian diasporic fiction. Through the analysis of three novels – The Electrical Field (1998) by Kerri Sakamoto, Disappearing Moon Café (1990) by SKY Lee, and No New Land (1991) by M.G. Vassanji – this book discusses the aforementioned depictions in the context of different diasporic experiences and problems faced by Asian immigrants in Canada. Highlighting the complexity characterising the concept of fatherhood not only allows a more critical examination of the Western portrayals of immigrant fathers but also provides an opportunity for an in-depth look into the impact migratory experiences – such as immigration and transgenerational trauma, identity crisis, hybridisation, rootlessness, issues with acculturation and assimilation, racism, and longing for homeland – have on the representation of immigrant fatherhood.

SPIS TREŚCI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / 7

INTRODUCTION / 9

Chapter One

Fatherhood – Meaning, Evolution, Models / 21

Chapter Two

Impact of Migration and Diasporic Experience on the Structure and Internal Relations of a Family / 57

Chapter Three
Trauma and Absent Fatherhood in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field / 77

Chapter Four
Patrilineality, Patrilocality, and Diasporic Fatherhood in SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café / 109

Chapter Five
Assimilation, Rootlessness, and Fatherhood in M.G. Vassanji’s No New Land / 139

CONCLUSIONS / 173

BIBLIOGRAPHY / 187

STRESZCZENIE. Twarze imigranckiego ojcostwa: portret ojca-imigranta w wybranych powieściach kanadyjskich mniejszości azjatyckich / 199

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Autorzy

Joanna Antoniak

dr Joanna Antoniak
adiunkt
Katedra Literatury, Kultury i Komparatystyki Anglojęzycznej, Instytut Literaturoznawstwa

Zainteresowania:
Literatura postkolonialna i diasporyczna, gender studies i studia nad męskością, psychologia miejsca i relacje człowieka z przestrzenią w literaturze

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