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Our Masks, Our Selves

Canadian literature, 2021-09 (245), p.16-193 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2021 The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature ;Copyright Pacific Affairs. The University of British Columbia 2021 ;ISSN: 0008-4360

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  • Title:
    Our Masks, Our Selves
  • Author: Phu, Thy
  • Subjects: Artists ; Asians ; Canada ; Civil rights ; Coronaviruses ; COVID-19 ; Critics ; Disease ; Epidemics ; Fear & phobias ; Literary devices ; Masks ; Metaphor ; Multiculturalism & pluralism ; Orientalism ; Pandemics ; Social aspects ; Social networks ; Stereotypes ; Visual culture
  • Is Part Of: Canadian literature, 2021-09 (245), p.16-193
  • Description: Put simply, the latest form of Sinophobia in this pandemic combines classic Yellow Peril yarns with the far-fetched fantasies of techno-orientalism, according to cultural critics Lok Siu and Claire Chun. Because it obscures the face, the mask fits all too easily into Yellow Peril stereotypes about Asian inscrutability. [...]the sedimented prejudices of Sinophobia dovetail with classic orientalism. The creation of online communities of self-expression, in the form of the selfie and through Facebook groups, provides potent counterimages that oppose viral racisms. Since I began writing about the mask years ago, I have become more and more struck by the incongruity between its persistent significations and its flexibility as a metaphor. Even those who refuse to wear masks contribute to this clamour, stridently embracing individual rights over collective responsibility. Because we can see masks-at a time when we cannot, should not, see most of our friends and much of our family-this boundary technology seems an apt emblem of intimate insurmountability, how close and yet how far we are from each other.
  • Publisher: Vancouver: The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0008-4360
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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