"The inexplicable presence of the thing[s] not named": Dirty Laundry, the railway and constructing the nation

Canadian Journal of Film Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 48-69

  Francis, Margot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 79956410103     PISSN: 08475911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cjfs.10.1.48     Document Type: Review

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4. Hon. Mr. Chapleau and Hon. Mr. Justice Gray, Report of the Royal Commission on Chinese Immigration (Ottawa: Printed by Order of the Commission, 1885), 194.
5. Some of the principal works on Chinese migrants and the CPR are: Patricia Roy, "A Choice Between Evils: The Chinese and the Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia", in Hugh A. Dempsey, ed., The CPR West: The Iron Road and the Making of a Nation (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1984);
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14. This phrase is borrowed from Willa Cather's essay, "The Novel Démeublé", in her Not Under Forty (New York: Knopf, 1936), 50;
15. quoted in Siobhan Somerville, "Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body", Journal of the History of Sexuality 5. 2(1994):246.
16. I have borrowed this phrase from Greg Dening, Performances (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 103-127.
17. Thomas Waugh, "Good, Clean Fung", Wide Angle 20. 2(1998), 164-175;
18. to be reprinted in Peter X. Feng, ed., Screening Asian Americans (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, forthcoming 2001).
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26. I have borrowed the expression "nonindifferent" from Sergei Eisenstein, Nonindifferent Nature, trans. Herbert Marshall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
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28. Quoted in Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York: Routledge, 1995), 300.
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30. ("Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-Century Colonial Cultures", in Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti and Ella Shohat, eds., Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997], 344-373)
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33. Two wonderfully complex examples are Nancy Lewis, "Unthai-ing Gender and Sexual Constructions", (paper presented at the conference of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1995)
34. and Didi Khayatt, "The Place of Desire: Where are the Lesbians in Egypt?" (paper presented at the Faculty of Education, York University, June 1996).
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36. An excellent starting place for examining the meanings associated with gender and sex in European contexts is Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey, Jr., eds., Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (New York: Meridian, 1989); see especially the sections on the nineteen and twentieth centuries.
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38. "Seafarers, Cowboys, and Indians: Male Marriage in Fringe Societies on the Anglo-American Frontier", in Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986);
39. Terry L. Chapman, "Male Homosexuality: Legal Restraints and Social Attitudes in Western Canada, 1890-1920", in Louis Knafla, ed., Law and Justice in a New Land: Essays in Western Canadian Legal History (Toronto: Carswell, 1986), 277-292.
40. Cecilia Danysk, "'A Bachelor's Paradise': Homesteaders, Hired Hands, and the Construction of Masculinity 1880-1930", in Catherine Cavanaugh and Jeremy Mouat, eds., Making Western Canada: Essays on European Colonization and Settlement (Toronto: Garamond Press, 1996), 154-185.
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42. Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 25.
43. (Pon, 88-100; Marianna Valverde, The Age of Light, Soap and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925 [Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1991], 110-111).
44. Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemic and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming 2001), 90.
45. Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Random House Vintage Books, 1979), passim.