{"id":50070,"date":"2016-11-20T00:04:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50070"},"modified":"2016-11-20T00:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:04:57","slug":"citizen-monsters-race-and-cannibalism-in-suzette-mayrs-venous-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50070","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Monsters: Race and Cannibalism in Suzette Mayr\u2019s Venous Hum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/535643\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Citizen Monsters: Race and Cannibalism in Suzette Mayr\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>Venous Hum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.ca\/Community\/Bios\/Andrea_Beverley\/Andrea_Beverley\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andrea Beverley<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies<br \/>\n<em>Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journal\/330\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Canadian Studies\/Revue d&#8217;\u00e9tudes canadiennes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/29272\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2013<\/a><br \/>\npages 36-58<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through <a href=\"http:\/\/suzettemayr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Suzette Mayr\u2019s<\/a> 2004 novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50049\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Venous Hum<\/em><\/a>, a number of the central characters are revealed to be cannibalistic vampires, some of whom are reformed and loveable while others are violent and villainous. The novel is funny and satirical with connections to cult horror films and canonical Canadian literature. By reading <em>Venous Hum<\/em> in terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_realism\" target=\"_blank\">magic realism<\/a> and literary cannibalism, this essay focusses on the ways in which Mayr\u2019s evocations of vampires and cannibals lead readers towards a politicized questioning of the relationship between perceived differences and official nation-state discourse. This essay thus examines the novel\u2019s magic realist monster imagery in relation to racialization and the politics of interpellation, visibility, inclusion, and assimilation in multicultural <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>. Mayr makes ironic use of the colonial resonances of cannibalistic discourse in order to critique the relationship between the nation-state and its varied citizens, and between official multicultural policy and the lived experience of racialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Monsters: Race and Cannibalism in Suzette Mayr\u2019s Venous Hum Andrea Beverley, Assistant Professor of Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada Journal of Canadian Studies\/Revue d&#8217;\u00e9tudes canadiennes Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 36-58 Halfway through Suzette Mayr\u2019s 2004 novel Venous Hum, a number of the central characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,1196,8],"tags":[25467,6701,6702,16639],"class_list":["post-50070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-andrea-beverley","tag-journal-of-canadian-studies","tag-revue-detudes-canadiennes","tag-suzette-mayr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50071,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50070\/revisions\/50071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}