Brian Castro's Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

Chapter 1: Birds of Passage: The Gift of Authorship

19

Chapter 2: Pomeroy: A Dialectic of Risk

33

Chapter 3: Double-Wolf: Writing and Time, Now There’s the Rub

49

Chapter 4: Centres of Absence in After China

69

Chapter 5: Drift: Storytelling and/of Annihilation

95

Chapter 6: Stepper: Writing of Death/Death of Writing

123

Chapter 7: Lines of Exposure: Shanghai Dancing

147

Chapter 8: Unpacking Castro’s Library, or Detours and Return in The Garden Book

175

Conclusion: Blue Writers and the Invitation to Friendship

191

Appendix: Awards and Translation Histories for Castro’s Fiction

195