Larissa Lai

Belén Martín-Lucas (Universidade de Vigo)

Ed. by Karis Shearer, University of British Columbia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 1967
Activity 1995-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

Activities

Primary

Literary Critic/ Historian
Novelist
Poet

Resources

Lai's Works

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Larissa Lai has become a prominent figure in the contemporary Canadian cultural scene due to her innovative production as a writer of fiction and poetry and to her insightful work as a cultural critic and anti-racist activist. The increasing interest in her work led the journal

West Coast Line

to edit a special issue in 2004 entitled

West Coast Lai

. Although born in the United States, she migrated to Canada at an early age and is considered a representative Chinese Canadian author of the younger generation; she is now settled in Vancouver, where she is an English professor at the University of British Columbia. Her committed literature offers innovative poetics for a solid critique of contemporary neoliberalism, revealing the flaws in the not-so-idyllic Canadian multicultural mosaic. Her…

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Citation: Martín-Lucas, Belén. "Larissa Lai". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 September 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12929, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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