Abstract:This essay compares two works of nonfiction and their various engagements with ontological and emotional dimensions of mixed-race subjectivities: I contrast the essay "Born Again Indian" (2010) by Canadian writer Dorothy Mills-Proctor with Scottish writer Jackie Kay's autobiography Red Dust Road (2011). The two writers share a biracial background (Mills-Proctor, black and Native; Kay, black and white) as well as the double displacement that comes from being women in a postcolonial context; therefore, both texts reveal similar representations of the function of the body as a signifier of race. These authors exploit the contingency inherent to racial attributions to create new readings of their racialized bodies and thus resist and redress colonial legacies of racism. Establishing a transatlantic dialogue between these authors and their coming to terms with (mixed-)race policies within the distinct spaces from which they write will illuminate some of the tendencies and directions that black Canadian writings currently exhibit.

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阅读加拿大黑人/苏格兰黑人非小说中的身体种族：多萝西米尔斯普罗克特和杰基凯

摘要：这篇文章比较了两部非小说作品及其在混血主体的本体论和情感维度上的各种参与：我对比了加拿大作家多萝西·米尔斯-普罗克特 (Dorothy Mills-Proctor) 的论文“Born Again Indian” (2010) 与苏格兰作家杰基·凯的自传 Red尘路（2011）。这两位作家有着混血背景（米尔斯-普罗克特，黑人和土著；凯，黑人和白人）以及后殖民背景下女性所带来的双重置换；因此，这两个文本都揭示了作为种族能指的身体功能的相似表现。这些作者利用种族归因固有的偶然性来创造对其种族化身体的新解读，从而抵制和纠正种族主义的殖民遗产。