Not Yet Alone: Axes of Exclusion in Wayson Choy’s Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying

Sabrina  Reed

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2021): Special Issue: Queer Bodies/Corps Queers

Not Yet Alone: Axes of Exclusion in Wayson Choy’s Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying

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Submitted: January 30, 2022
Published: 2022-01-31

References

Baena, Rosalia. “Transcultural Autobiographies: The Photograph as Site of Ethnicity.” Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Americas, edited by William Boellhower et al., LIT Verlag, 2004, pp. 361-74.
Choy, Wayson. All that Matters. 2004. Anchor, 2005.
Choy, Wayson. “Death’s Lesson: ‘Love Has No Rules.’” Interview with Sarah Hampson. The Globe and Mail, 6 Apr. 2009, pp. L1-2. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
Choy, Wayson. “An Interview with Wayson Choy.” With Glenn Deer. Canadian Literature, vol. 163, 1999, pp. 34-44.
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Choy, Wayson. Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying. Anchor, 2009.
Choy, Wayson. Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Memoir. Penguin, 1999.
Choy, Wayson. “Truly, Family Is Who Loves You.” Ask the Author. The Globe and Mail, 19 May 2009, updated 2 May 2018, www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/truly-familyis-who-loves-you/article4211204/.
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How to Cite

Reed, S. . (2022). Not Yet Alone: Axes of Exclusion in Wayson Choy’s Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying. Studies in Canadian Literature, 46(1), 78–95. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32736

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[1] Baena, Rosalia. “Transcultural Autobiographies: The Photograph as Site of Ethnicity.” Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Americas, edited by William Boellhower et al., LIT Verlag, 2004, pp. 361-74.

[2] Choy, Wayson. All that Matters. 2004. Anchor, 2005.

[3] Choy, Wayson. “Death’s Lesson: ‘Love Has No Rules.’” Interview with Sarah Hampson. The Globe and Mail, 6 Apr. 2009, pp. L1-2. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

[4] Choy, Wayson. “An Interview with Wayson Choy.” With Glenn Deer. Canadian Literature, vol. 163, 1999, pp. 34-44.

[5] Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony. Douglas and McIntyre, 1995.

[6] Choy, Wayson. Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying. Anchor, 2009.

[7] Choy, Wayson. Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Memoir. Penguin, 1999.

[8] Choy, Wayson. “Truly, Family Is Who Loves You.” Ask the Author. The Globe and Mail, 19 May 2009, updated 2 May 2018, www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/truly-familyis-who-loves-you/article4211204/.

[9] Frank, Arthur. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics. U of Chicago P, 1995.

[10] Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Columbia UP, 1997.

[11] Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Simon and Schuster, 1963.

[12] Hunsaker Hawkins, Anne. Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography. 2nd ed., Purdue UP, 1999.

[13] Jung, Nathan. “Jaded Ghosts in the Writings of Wayson Choy.” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 46, no. 2, 2013, vol. 47, no. 1, 2014, pp. 55-75. Project Muse.

[14] Knegt, Peter. Super Queeroes! Produced by Peter Knegt and Mercedes Grundy, CBC/RadioCanada, 2020, www.cbc.ca/artsprojects/superqueeroes/wayson-choy.

[15] Kristeva, Julia. “Powers of Horror.” The Portable Kristeva, edited by Kelly Oliver, updated ed., Columbia UP, 2002, pp. 229-63.

[16] Lai, Larissa. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014.

[17] Lederman, Marsha. “Prize-Winning Author Brought New Perspective to Canadian Literature.” The Globe and Mail, 2 May 2019, p. B19.

[18] Lim, Huai-Yang. “‘There’s Nothing More to Know’: Silences, Secrets, and Ghosts in Wayson Choy’s Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 19, nos. 1-2, 2014, pp. 249-57.

[19] Liu, Zhen. “Chinatown Children during World War Two in The Jade Peony.” Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 7, 2018, pp. 25-35. Research Gate.

[20] Mairs, Nancy. “Sex and Death and the Crippled Body: A Meditation.” Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, edited by Sharon L. Snyder et al., MLA, 2002, pp. 156-70.

[21] McRuer, Robert. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York UP, 2006.

[22] McRuer, Robert. “Disabling Sex: Notes for a Crip Theory of Sexuality.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 2011, pp. 107-17.

[23] Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. 2nd ed., U of Minnesota P, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral. proquest.com/lib/mtroyal-ebooks.