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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Eng, Mercedes, 1972-     Subjects     Mothers and daughters -- Poetry.     Racism -- Canada -- Poetry.     Families -- Poetry.     Canadian poetry -- 21st century.     Canadian poetry -- Chinese-Canadian authors.     Canadian poetry -- Women authors.     Canada -- Colonization -- Poetry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Eng, Mercedes, 1972-       by title:      My yt mama : poems /...       by call number:      819.16 E57m     Search the Web     Eng, Mercedes, 1972-     Mothers and daughters -- Poetry.     Racism -- Canada -- Poetry.     Families -- Poetry.     Canadian poetry -- 21st century.     Canadian poetry -- Chinese-Canadian authors.     Canadian poetry -- Women authors.     Canada -- Colonization -- Poetry.       MARC Display

My yt mama : poems / Mercedes Eng. by Eng, Mercedes, 1972- Talonbooks, 2020. Call #: 819.16 E57m Subjects Mothers and daughters -- Poetry.   Racism -- Canada -- Poetry.   Families -- Poetry.   Canadian poetry -- 21st century.   Canadian poetry -- Chinese-Canadian authors.   Canadian poetry -- Women authors.   Canada -- Colonization -- Poetry. ISBN:  9781772012552 (trade pbk) Alternate title:  My white mama Description:  77 p. ; 19 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "my yt mama is a collection of poems that considers historic and contemporary colonial violence in the Canadian prairies, a settler geography and state of mind that irrevocably shaped Eng's understanding of race as person of colour born and raised in Treaty 7 Territory in Medicine Hat, Alberta. These poems document an education in white supremacist ideology that began in infancy and occurred everywhere: at home where the author lived with her white mother, 1261 kilometres away from her Chinese migrant father's family; in public institutions such as the school, the library, and the museum that erase Indigenous peoples' histories while producing the myth of the 'vanishing Indians;' and in the media and entertainment in which white supremacist beauty standards are constructed and reinforced. Keenly attuned to the language of those in power, Eng exposes the violence of the English language in the colonial project, taking on the words of Canadian politician F. W. Gershaw's history of the city of Medicine Hat as occasioned by Canada's Centennial, to derail the superficially neutral language of yt history that mythologizes nation and city while simultaneously deriding Indigenous ways of being (ontology) and ways of knowing (epistemology) as 'legends' or 'myths.' Like the author herself, my yt mama is hybrid: part memoir, part history, part discourse analysis, part love letter to her mother."--Publisher. Genre:  Canadian poetry Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction 819.16 E57m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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