Emergent Critical Strategies Against the Nation- Trap: The Digitization of Literary Apocalyptic Affects and Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu
Abstract Focused on interrogating the ways in which twenty-first century writing in Canada is currently approached critically and theoretically, this article proposes new reading methods that expose the influence of nation-state powers over literary productions. In particular, this article takes up Larissa Lai’s dynamic, post-apocalyptic novel, The Tiger Flu, as a case study to examine these ideas by using digital tools. It studies the novel’s reflections on gender, sexuality, and technology within re-imagined
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Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration. Routledge, 1990.
Blodgett, E.D. “After Pierre Berton What? In Search of a Canadian Literature.” Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 30, 1985, pp. 60-80.
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Kamboureli, Smaro. Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada. WLUP, 2009.
Keegan, Rebecca. “Jordan Peele on the ‘post-racial lie’ that inspired Get Out.” Vanity Fair, 30 October 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/jordan-peele-get-out-screening.
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Lai, Larissa. “Familiarizing Grist Village: Why I Write Speculative Fiction.” Canadian Literature, no. 240, Spring 2020, n.p. Retrieved from Gale Literature Resource Center.
Lai, Larissa. “Insurgent Utopias: How to Recognize the Knock at the Door.” Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture, edited by Ina Batzke, et al., Transcript, 2018, pp. 91-113.
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Mathis-Moser, Ursula, and Marie Carrière, editors. Writing Beyond the End Times? / Écrire au-delà de la fin des temps? The Literatures of Canada and Quebec / Les littératures au Canada et au Québec. University of Alberta Press, 2019.
Moodie, Susanna. Roughing It in The Bush: or, Life in Canada. G.P. Putnam, 1852.
Peele, Jordan, director. Get Out. Universal Pictures, 2017.
Peele, Jordan, director. Us. Universal Pictures, 2019.
Pippin, Tina. Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image. Routledge, 1999.
Saunders, Max. “Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies.” A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, edited by Sara B. Young et al., 2009, pp. 321-331.
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Cormier, M. (2022). Emergent Critical Strategies Against the Nation- Trap: The Digitization of Literary Apocalyptic Affects and Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu. Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, 11, 167–182. https://doi.org/10.14201/candb.v11i167-182
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