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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Miki, Roy
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Roy Miki was born in 1942 on a sugar beet farm in Manitoba where his second-generation
Japanese Canadian parents were forcibly settled during the
Second World War. He has achieved success as a poet, editor,
critic and teacher. Miki received a B.A. from the University
of Manitoba, a M.A. from Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D.
from the University of British Columbia. He lives in Vancouver
and teachers contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University.
In July 2006, Miki was named a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions in voluntary service and arts-writing.
The non-fiction works highlighted on this page represent only a portion of Miki's prose writing. |
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Poetry
Mannequin Rising
Vancouver: New Star Books, 2011.
9th floor PS8576 .I32 M28 2011
Publisher's Synopsis
In the three sequences of poems and photo-collages that form the heart of this book, the figures of mannequins emerge from local spaces--Kitsilano and Granville Island in Vancouver, Shibuya and Ginza in Tokyo--that are bathed in the ubiquitous affects of commodity culture in our everyday relationships. |
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Poetry
Market Rinse
Calgary: DisOrientation Chapbooks, 1993.
Limited ed. of 300 copies. |
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Poetry
Random Access File
Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press, 1995. |
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Poetry
Saving Face: Poems Selected 1976-1988
Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1991.
Publisher's Synopsis
Roy Miki's first collection of poems is a brilliant discourse which sounds the originary, unheard of voices of family and community from the perspective of the "sansei" or third-generation Japanese Canadian. These exquisitely balanced poems trace the fragility of ancestral bonds. Diamond-edged, they expose those subtle connections which tie the personal to a collective past scarred by the old wounds of internment and denied identity. |
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Poetry
Surrender
Toronto: Mercury Press, 2001.
9th floor PS8576
.I31 S97 2001
Publisher's Synopsis
Roy Miki's brilliant intermixture of the lyrical with the
political, the moment with history, the brutal banality of
the document with the tender touch of a hand, builds in a
tour de force of clarity and beauty. His daring engagements
with the provisional, shifting formations of identity and
language place him among the most original and powerful of
contemporary poets.
Awards and Honours
2002 Governor
General's Literary Award--English Poetry. (Winner) |
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Poetry
There
Vancouver: New Star Books, 2006.
9th floor PS8576 .I31 T44 2006
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
Canada, Asia, Europe provide the local conditions where the authorial 'i' engages with globalization, with the collision between otherness and spatialization. The serial poems comprising There contain a multiplicity of voices drawn from those the poet hears in conversation, advertising, historiography and scientific proceedings, and incorporate photos and photomontages.
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Non-fiction
Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing: Essays
Toronto: Mercury Press, 1998.
9th floor PS8576
.I31 B76 1998
Publisher's Synopsis
In these moving, lyrical, and articulate essays, Roy Miki
explores the issues and realities that comprise, for him,
a writing life: redress, history, memory, "race,"
language, displacement--and their interrelationships--as well
as the voices of those known and loved whose wisdom rings
even after death, Roy Kiyooka and bpNichol. |
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Non-fiction
In Flux: Transnational Signs of Asian Canadian Writing
Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2011.
9th floor PS8089.5 .A8 M55 2011
Publisher's Synopsis
In this collection of essays ... Roy Miki ... investigates the shifting currents of citizenship, globalization, and cultural practices facing Asian Canadians today through the connections of place and identity that have been forged through our developing national literature. |
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Non-fiction
Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement.
Co-author: Cassandra Kobayashi.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1991.
6th floor D768.15
.M53 1991 |
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Non-fiction
Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian call for Justice.
Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004
6th floor FC106.J3 M55 2004
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
This passionate and important book—part memoir, part critical examination—explores the Japanese Canadian redress movement of the late 20th century, which sought compensation from the federal government for the internment of citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.
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Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Dobson, Kit. "Global subjectivities in Roy Miki's Surrender." In Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009, 169-178.
9th floor PS8071 .D62 2009 |
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