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Before I was a critic I was a human being / Amy Fung.

Fung, Amy, (author.). Artspeak Gallery, (issuing body.).

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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.' (from the Introduction). Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of creative 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 piece 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."-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781771665056
  • ISBN: 177166505X
  • Physical Description: 181 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Book*hug Press ; 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 181).
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- Harbour -- Sprawl -- Venture -- The Bridge -- Treaties -- The Cairn -- Choke -- Witness -- Tour -- The Island -- Difficult People -- 375 -- Epilogue.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also in electronic formats.

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Subject: Immigrants > Canada.
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Genre: Essays.

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AMY FUNG is a writer, researcher and curator born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and spent her formative years in and around Edmonton on Treaty 6 Territory. Her writings have been published and commissioned by national and international publications, galleries, museums, festivals, and journals since 2007. Her multifarious curatorial projects have spanned exhibitions, cinematic and live presentations, as well as discursive events across Canada and abroad.

Amy Fung is a writer, researcher and curator born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and spent her formative years in and around Edmonton on Treaty 6 Territory. Her writings have been published and commissioned by national and international publications, galleries, museums, festivals, and journals since 2007. Her multifarious curatorial projects have spanned exhibitions, cinematic and live presentations, as well as discursive events across Canada and abroad. Before I was a Critic I was a Human Being is her first book.

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