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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Wong, Rita
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Rita Wong was born in 1968 and grew
up in Calgary. She has taught English in China, Japan and Canada,
and currently lives in Vancouver where she remains active as
a writer, activist, and archivist. In 1997 she received the
Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop emerging writer award. Wong
has a Masters degree in English from the University of Alberta
and a Master in Archival Studies from the University of British
Columbia. Wong's Ph.D. dissertation from Simon Fraser
University (2002) is entitled: Provisional Mobilities: Rethinking Labour Through Asian Racialization in Literature. She is currently teaching at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. |
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Poetry
Forage
Gibson's Landing, B.C.: Nightwood Editions, 2007.
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
Self-described as "impassioned rants against the abuses of power," Rita Wong's newest collection of poems is a vividly described, fierce commentary on our international political landscape and the injustices it breeds. All of the poems in Forage hold sharply modern and timely opinions that are aching to tear off the page and race down the street in a whirl of fury and Third World pride: "the time for business as usual is over. It died with the first colonial casualty."
Awards and Honours
2008 Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry (Winner)
2008 Asian American Literary Awards (Finalist)
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Poetry
Monkeypuzzle: Poems
Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1998.
Publisher's Synopsis
Heady and sensual, lyrical and passionate, Rita Wong's poetry
excavates the minefields of childhood, family, history and
desire-- a moving chronicle that searches deeply to lay bare
the boundaries of class, race, and home. |
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Poetry
Sybil Unrest
Co-author: Larissa Lai.
Burnaby, B.C.: LINEbooks, 2008.
9th floor PS8595 .O5975 S92 2008
Synopsis (from Acknowledgements)
This poem began in a renga spirit during the 2003 Hong Kong International Literary Festival. ... The conversational format and the intensive questioning produce an unstable, flickering sort of subjectivity that throws an enlightenment individual "i" into question, and hopefully explores its ideological underpinnings. It is into this unstable subjectivity that we attempt to reinject questions of gender, race and class, as well as geography, movement, power and hope. |
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Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Khoo, Gaik Cheng. "Rita Wong." In Asian American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, ed. Guiyou Huang, [319]-322. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
9th floor PS153 .A84 A826 2002
Miki, Roy. "Are You Restless Too? Not to Worry, So is Rita Wong: Towards a Poetics of the Apprehensive." Chap. in his In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2011, 177-205.
9th floor PS8089.5 .A8 M55 2011 |
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Links
Rita Wong's blog
Rita Wong's website
at Simon Fraser University. This includes two excerpts from
Monkeypuzzle.
Rita Wong page on the Writers' Union of Canada website.
Publisher Nightwood Editions |
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