Room Number: TRS 1-073
Join the Meeting: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/98949857266?pwd=Y1NieTcydnJ4SWtMbWc1UTNoWHJDQT09
Chair: Camille Isaacs (OCAD U)
Speakers:
Sara Ali (U Waikato), “I’m a victim of jealousy”: Urban Pakistani Masculinity in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke”
Michael Bucknor (U Alberta), “Canadian Civility’ as Violation: The Volatile and Vital Contracts of Caribbean/Canadian Men of Colour”
Basmah Rahman (Queens U), “Canadian Classroom Commons: Examining Social Ruptures in David Chariandy’s Brother”
Paper Summaries:
Sara Ali (U Waikato), “I’m a victim of jealousy”: Urban Pakistani Masculinity in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke”
Examining Mohsin Hamid’s novel Moth Smoke, this paper explores the role desire to achieve hegemonic masculinity, masculine rivalry and homoerotic desires play in protagonist Daru’s identity crisis and social decline in a class-controlled urban Pakistan.
Michael Bucknor (U Alberta), “Canadian Civility’ as Violation: The Volatile and Vital Contracts of Caribbean/Canadian Men of Colour”
Proposing black Canadian effrontery as a response to what, Daniel Coleman, has long conceptualized as “white Canadian civility,” I explore the rhetorical, representational, institutional, and familial sources of violation to black male subjects in Canada. This paper investigates both the quotidian ruination and re-humanization of men of colour through the lens of intimacy.
Basmah Rahman (Queens U), “Canadian Classroom Commons: Examining Social Ruptures in David Chariandy’s Brother”
Canadian Classroom Commons: Examining Social Ruptures in David Chariandy’s Brother scrutinizes forms of celebrated citizenship promoted in Canada’s public education system. Using Brother as a primary case-study, Rahman argues that the prioritization of individualized resilience in normative models inherently restricts alternative resilience models that center proactive community support for BIPOC youth.