The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. "Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s" contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of the state continue to resonate for contemporary discussions of race and literature in Canada. Larissa Lai takes up the term Asian Canadian as a term of emergence, in the sense that it is...