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99 Canadian Literature A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Winter 200 8 $25 Ca n a d ian 99 Literature asian canadian studies canadian asian Asian Canadian Studies A collection of drama from some of Québec’s leading playwrights. Includes IN TRANSLAT Hélène Pedneault, Michèle Magny, Pol Pelletier, Abla Farhoud, Geneviève Billette, Emmanuelle Roy, and Emma Haché translated by Linda Gaboriau, Jill Mac Dougall, Bobby Theodore, Don Druick, and Arthur Milner. 978-0-88754-719-5 $50 www Timothy and Sammy seek the . Land of Knees, a mythical playwrightscanada country with no shortage of knees to sit on and an endless supply of kisses and hugs. A story of love: unbreakable, undying, passionate love that requires discipline and disobedience, that frees the . spirit and creates everlasting com friendships. 978-0-88754-717-1 $14.95 I On a dilapidated dock in London, a walking sculpture reminisces about a life devoted ON to art, squatters plan their uprising against the monarchy and medieval ghosts hatch elaborate revenge scenarios of their own. A play about art, history, sexuality, how we fight our battles and, ultimately, how we choose to live our lives. 978-0-88754-825-3 $17.95 Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number 199, Winter 2008, Asian Canadian Studies Published by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Margery Fee Associate Editors: Laura Moss (Reviews), Glenn Deer (Acting Editor), Larissa Lai (Poetry), Réjean Beaudoin (Francophone Writing), Judy Brown (Reviews) Past Editors: George Woodcock (1959–1977), W.H. New (1977–1995), Eva-Marie Kröller (1995–2003), Laurie Ricou (2003–2007) Editorial Board Heinz Antor Universität Köln Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Carole Gerson Simon Fraser University Coral Ann Howells University of Reading Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph Jon Kertzer University of Calgary Ric Knowles University of Guelph Neil ten Kortenaar University of Toronto Louise Ladouceur University of Alberta Patricia Merivale University of British Columbia Judit Molnár University of Debrecen Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Ian Rae McGill University Roxanne Rimstead Université de Sherbrooke Patricia Smart Carleton University David Staines University of Ottawa David Williams University of Manitoba Mark Williams Victoria University, New Zealand Articles Guy Beauregard Asian Canadian Studies: Unfinished Projects 6 Christopher Lee Enacting the Asian Canadian 28 Iyko Day Must All Asianness Be American? The Census, Racial Classification, and Asian Canadian Emergence 45 Donald C. Goellnicht Asian Kanadian, Eh? 71 Marie Lo The Currency of Visibility and the Paratext of “Evelyn Lau” 100 Articles, continued Glenn Deer Remapping Vancouver: Composing Urban Spaces in Contemporary Asian Canadian Writing 118 Roy Miki Global Drift: Thinking the Beyond of Identity Politics 145 Rita Wong Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature 158 Lily Cho Asian Canadian Futures: Diasporic Passages and the Routes of Indenture 181 Henry Yu Afterword 202 Epilogue: A Conversation on Unfinished Projects 208 Poems Tim Mook Sang 212 Angela Long 216 Dale Lee Kwong 213 Changming Yuan 217 Terry Watada 214 Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at http://www.canlit.ca Authors Reviewed Reviewers Fulvio Caccia 229 Guy Beauregard 226 Elaine Chang 219 Eloise A. Brière 227 Rocío G. Davis 220 Debra Dudek 223 Pier Giorgio Di Cicco 221 Aaron Giovannone 221 Marta Dvorák 223 Victor Liang 219 Katia Grubisic 228 Tara Lee 220 Smaro Kamboureli 223 Anne Marie Miraglia 229 Kyo Maclear 226 Erin Wunker 228 Andrea MacPherson 228 Félicia Mihali 227 Roy Miki 223 Sachiko Murakami 228 W.H. New 223 Alain Olivier 229 Rita Wong 221 Rob Winger 221 Canadian Literature thanks the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC) at the University of British Columbia for its financial contribution to this special issue. We are especially grateful for the advice and support of Dr. Henry Yu, Director of INSTRCC. Canadian Literature, a peer-reviewed journal, welcomes original, unpublished submissions of articles, interviews, and other commentaries relating to writers and writing in Canada, and of previously unpublished poems by Canadian writers. The journal does not publish fiction. 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He acknowledges that this disparity stems in part “from the personal failings of individual scholars, from the elitism and ideologi- cal conservatism at the core of academic career hierarchies, and from the isolation of many ethnic studies scholars from the activities of actual social movements” (297). But he also underlines that “the ethnic studies para- digm itself, as it has emerged historically, is also partly responsible for the problems we face” (197)—a point that has been addressed in a variety of ways by prominent ethnic studies scholars in the United States over the past twenty years (see, for example, Hirabayashi and Alquizola; Kim; and Omi). Particularly problematic for Lipsitz is what he calls “a one-group-at-a-time story of exclusion and discrimination rather than an analytic, comparative, and relational approach revealing injustice to be the rule rather than the exception in our society” (297).