Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number 227, Winter 215, Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation Published by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Laura Moss Associate Editors: Stephen Collis (Poetry), Kathryn Grafton (CanLit Guides), Nicholas Bradley (Reviews) Assistant Editor: Tiffany Johnstone (Reviews) Past Editors: George Woodcock (1959-1977), W. H. New (1977-1995), Eva-Marie Kröller (1995-23), Laurie Ricou (23-27), Margery Fee (27-215) Editorial Board Alison Calder University of Manitoba Carrie Dawson Dalhousie University Cecily Devereux University of Alberta Kit Dobson Mount Royal University Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Helen Gilbert University of London Faye Hammill University of Strathclyde Lucie Hotte University of Ottawa Smaro Kamboureli University of Toronto Ric Knowles University of Guelph Christopher Lee University of British Columbia Linda Morra Bishop’s University Lianne Moyes Université de Montréal Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Reingard Nischik University of Konstanz Vanja Polic´ University of Zagreb Ian Rae King’s University College Julie Rak University of Alberta Roxanne Rimstead Université de Sherbrooke Gillian Roberts University of Nottingham Sherry Simon Concordia University Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa Neil ten Kortenaar University of Toronto Marie Vautier University of Victoria Gillian Whitlock University of Queensland Mark Williams Victoria University, New Zealand Lorraine York McMaster University Editorial Guest Editors: Christopher Lee and Christine Kim Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation 6 Articles Timothy Yu Waiting for Asian Canada: Fred Wah’s Transnational Aesthetics 17 Donald Goellnicht Paul Wong and Refugee Citizenship 38 Malissa Phung Asian-Indigenous Relationalities: Literary Gestures of Respect and Gratitude 56 Articles, continued Jenny Heijun Wills Competing Nationalisms in Ru and La Trilogie coréenne: Francophone Asian Québécois Literatures 75 Guy Beauregard On Not Knowing: A Tale for the Time Being and the Politics of Imagining Lives After March 11 96 Helen Hok-Sze Leung Asia/Canada Reframed: Perspectives from a Transpacific Film Location 114 Poems Kim Fu 15 Julie Anne Joosten 73, 74 Jim Johnstone 37 Nathaniel G. Moore 94 Corals Zheng 55 John Reibetanz 113 Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at canlit.ca/reviews Authors Reviewed Aislinn Hunter 169 Jordan Abel 148 Ghalib Islam 163 André Alexis 151 Ikram Jama 143 Thomas Allen 153 Peruvemba S. Jaya 143 Oana Avasilichioaei 138 Vici Johnstone 160 Elizabeth Bachinsky 144 Daniel Karasik 161 Jennifer Blair 153 Christine Kim 133 Sandy Marie Bonny 155 Yumi Kotani 143 Emmanuel Bouchard 157 André Langevin 170 Michel Marc Bouchard 142 Jack Lohman 153 Stephen R. Bown 158 Rashmi Luther 143 Valerie Burton 160 Monia Mazigh 143 Louis Carmain 135 Charlotte Mendel 155 Donna Coates 161 Cindy Mochizuki 138 Michael Crummey 175 Sachiko Murakami 140 Rachel Cusk 163 Ruth Ozeki 137 Iyko Day 133 Arleen Paré 175 Sarah de Leeuw 138 Jean-François Payette 171 Martine Delvaux 165 Roger Payette 171 Charles Demers 165 Al Pittman 175 Vanaja Dhruvarajan 143 Janusz Przychodzen 171 Beth Graham 142 Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley 158 Jean Guthrie 160 Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley 158 Tomson Highway 166 Matt Rader 173 Pauline Holdstock 151 Scott Randall 173 Armand Garnet Ruffo 166 Alicia Fahey 153 Robyn Sarah 175 Alana Fletcher 160 Craig Savel 177 Louis-Serge Gill 171 Bren Simmers 140 Daniel Laforest 181 Alexandre Soublière 178 Dorothy F. Lane 155 Lucya Spencer 143 Maude Lapierre 165 Margaret Sweatman 169 Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand 178 Maria Tippett 179 Stephanie L. Lu 135 Rhea Tregebov 179 Sarah MacKenzie 161 Jennifer Tremblay 157 Krzysztof Majer 179 Aaron Tucker 140 Niall McArdle 163 Élise Turcotte 181 Robin McGrath 158 Alexis von Konigslow 155 Catherine Owen 175 Rita Wong 138 Olivia Pellegrino 169 Tim Wynne-Jones 137 Laura Ritland 140 David Yee 142 Shelley Scott 142 Paul Yee 135 Dani Spinosa 177 Christina Turner 148 Reviewers Hilary Turner 151 Guy Beauregard 137 Eleanor Ty 133 Liza Bolen 157 Sylvie Vranckx 166 François-Emmanuël Boucher 170 Ziyan Yang 143 Natalee Caple 144 Kit Dobson 138 David Eso 173 Opinions and Notes Nicholas Bradley Truths and Consequences 182 Forum Asian Canadian Critique Christopher Lee and Christine Kim Introduction 189 Smaro Kamboureli Inside/out the Field: The Asian Canlit Imaginary 189 Robert Diaz On Queer / Asian / Canadian Critique 191 Y-Dang Troeung Alice Munro Country and Refugee Havens 193 Forum, continued Masumi Izumi Resituating Displaced/Replaced Subjects in and of Japanese Canadian History 194 Lisa Yoneyama Possibilities of Asian/Canadian Transnationality 196 Iyko Day Transnationalism Within 198 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. 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Editorial Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation Christopher Lee and Christine Kim As we write this editorial, we have before us four special issues of Canadian Literature that have been dedicated to Asian Canadian literature. In the 199s, special issues were published on “South Asian Connections” (#132 [1992]) and “East Asian-Canadian Connections” (#14 [1994]). In editorials published in both issues, then-editor W. H. New grappled with the object posited by their very topics. On the one hand, writing by or about South and East Asian Canadians had yielded a significant but (at least at that time) neglected body of work. On the other hand, New is acutely aware that these very categories may be misleading, incomplete, or even complicit in histories of racism. Writing about Asian characters in Canadian fiction, he says, “human sympathy can sometimes still function as a barrier, expressing solidarity at one remove; sometimes it is an act that conceptualizes itself as generosity rather than as a tacit declaration