Haptic Aesthetics and Skin Diving: Touching on Diasporic Embodiment in the Works of Anne Michaels, Dionne Brand, and David Chariandy

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dc.contributor.authorBirch-Bayley, Nicole
dc.contributor.supervisorShlensky, Lincoln
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-08T20:55:05Z
dc.date.available2014-12-21T12:22:07Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2014-01-08
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of English
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on the aesthetics of the sense of touch – haptic aesthetics – in contemporary Canadian diasporic literature. My reading of diasporic embodiment will discuss three contemporary novels, Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces (1996), Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For (2005), and David Chariandy’s Soucouyant (2007), for what these novels suggest about the incoherent nature of cultural boundaries and the alternative possibilities for embodiment and community formation through an analysis of the sense of touch. Set in the urban and suburban spaces of Toronto, Ontario, these narratives represent diasporic bodies and experiences less through concrete acts of social, historical, or biomedical identification, and more so through creative tactile and affective gestures of agency and community. I explore the ways in which diasporic subjects in these novels negotiate their biomedical, sociocultural, and geographic positions through haptic metaphoric processes of what I call “skin diving.”en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0401en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0352en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0422en_US
dc.description.proquestemailnbirchbayley@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5147
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjecttouchen_US
dc.subjectcultural boundariesen_US
dc.subjectToronto, Ont.en_US
dc.subjectdiasporicen_US
dc.titleHaptic Aesthetics and Skin Diving: Touching on Diasporic Embodiment in the Works of Anne Michaels, Dionne Brand, and David Chariandyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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