Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in New Canadian Narratives (Theory / Culture) Review

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Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in New Canadian Narratives (Theory / Culture) ReviewI was looking for a book that explored immigrant masculinity. I only found this, but I am pleased to have read it. In this text, Professor Coleman analyzes the literary work of Canadian men of color and asks what it exposes about the intersection of masculinity and immigration.
Coleman juggles countless balls here. He cites ideas from Judith Butler, bell hooks, Sigmund Freud, and many others. (Then again, many have said literary criticism appropriates many ideas from other disciplines.) Unlike most ethnic studies text which only focus on one racial group, Coleman explores the writings of South Asian men and Black men. There is a touch of linguistic diversity here as he looks at the work of a Francophone Black author, though he never states whether he read the original French or a translated version.
There is one big problem with this book. Coleman selects texts that explore the hypersexuality of Black men and the hyposexuality of Asian men. These works points to depictions of Black men are Priapus-like and Asian men as castrati. Authors have been wrestling with these controlling images for centuries (James Baldwin, Edward Said, and Franz Fanon, are just a few examples of such writers.) Coleman never really states how Canadian men of color break the boundaries of these rigid projections. He scantly mentions gay men of color writing in Canada and I wonder if they have produced more transgressive work in this area.
Professor Coleman was raised in a missionary home in Ethiopia. Thus, he states that he relates to living in a country as an outsider, particularly one of a different race. He intersperses his literary analysis with autobiographical anecdotes. Even he admits that his may be patronizing. I think it may point to his tacit desire to write a booklength story about his life. Though he intends no harm, this may rub some readers the wrong way. Perhaps it hints that he does not have much to say about the texts he selected.
Not all Canadian immigrants are of color, yet no books from white Canadian immigrants are brought up. He stated that he already wrote on First Nations authors in the past. A comparative work would be a great idea for his next book.
This text is a much-needed intervention. I wish there were more professors in American colleges producing work like this.Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in New Canadian Narratives (Theory / Culture) Overview

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