Reading with My Grandmother

Lindsay Diehl is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Manitoba, specializing in contemporary Canadian literature and Asian Canadian studies. Her research, which focuses on Chinese Canadian writing, has been featured in such journals as Canadian Literature, Canada & Beyond, and English Studies in Canada. She lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Treaty One territory.

• Table of Contents Introduction Family Secrets and Ghostly Hauntings: Wayson Choy's Paper Shadows: A Chinese Memoir, Judy Fong Bates' The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir, and my Grandmother's letters Gold Mountain Heroes: White Settler Nation-Building Myths and the Remasculinization of the Chinese Canadian Male Body Reading Against Orientalism: SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Café, Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children, and my Grandmother's Letters Contested Ground: Mixed Race Subjectivity in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill and in My Own Stories Conclusion Works Cited

"In her introduction to this wonderful book, Lindsay Diehl recounts sitting at her grandmother’s kitchen table, ‘listening to her stories.’ Extending this act of listening, Diehl moves across family stories, personal reflections, and attentive readings of Chinese Canadian literary texts. Brilliantly bridging the critical and the creative, this book grapples with and often challenges what we think we know about Asian Canadian writing and about Canada as a colonial contact zone. Above all, Reading with My Grandmother is a book infused with deep love." - Guy Beauregard, Professor at National Taiwan University