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.
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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.
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Preface -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Sources and Permissions -- -- Introduction: Reading Masculine Migrations -- -- 1. 'Playin' 'mas', Hustling Respect: Multicultural Masculinities in Two Stories by Austin Clarke -- -- 2. How to Make Love to a Discursive Genealogy: Dany Laferriere's Metaparody of Racialized Sexuality -- -- 3. Resisting Heroics: Male Disidentification in Neil Bissoondath's A Casual Brutality -- -- 4. Michael Ondaatje's Family Romance: Orientalism, Masculine Severance, and Interrelationship -- -- 5. The Law of the Father under the Pen of the Son: Rohinton Mistry, Ven Begamudre, and the Romance of Family Progress -- -- Afterword: Masculine Innovations and Cross-Cultural Refraction -- -- Notes -- -- Works Cited -- -- Index
