Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women's Fiction of the

Literary Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. Literary Criticism. Edited by Pilar Cuder-Dominguez, Belen Martin-Lucas, and Sonia Villegas-Lopez. TRANSNATIONAL POETICS: ASIAN CANADIAN WOMEN'S FICTION OF THE 1990s examines the writing of a generation of Asian Canadian women authors that started publishing in the 1990s: Shauna Singh Baldwin, Rachna Mara, Anita Rau Badami, Shani Mootoo, Shree Ghatage, Yasmin Ladha, Larissa Lai, Evelyn Lau, Lydia Kwa, Tamai Kobayashi, Hiromi Goto, Sally Ito, Kerri Sakamoto. The aim of the book is to determine how they re-conceptualize racial and gender identity and how they relate to the Canadian cultural climate in the new century, while providing an analysis of the innovative approach they have brought to genre and aesthetics.

Pilar Cuder-Dominguez is Associate Professor at the University of Huelva, Spain, where she teaches British and English-Canadian Literature and Feminist Theory. Her research interests are the intersections of gender, genre, nation, and race. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: A Beginner's Guide (2003) and the (co)editor of five collections of essays. Belen Martin-Lucas is Associate Professor at the University of Vigo, Spain where she teaches Postcolonial Literatures in English and Diasporic Film and Literatures. Her publications focus on the politics of resistance in contemporary postcolonial feminist fiction, looking at the diverse strategies employed in literary works, such as tropes and genres. She had co-edited a Special Issue of The Atlantic Literary Review on National Literatures in English and the Gobal Market (New Delhi 2001), among other publications.Sonia Villegas-Lopez is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Huelva, Spain. She has done research on Gender Studies and contemporary British and Canadian fiction, and has published essays and articles on Asian North American women's writing (2003, 2004). She is the author of a monograph on anglophone women's fiction of the late 20th century (Mujer y religion en la narrativa anglofona contemporanea, 1999).