ENGL 105W Lecture 13: LEC #13 -- Final prep
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Eng 105 prep: final using terms appropriately is good april 22 8:30-11:30 wmc 3250 for a bird in the house name the stories which they came from. Writing confirms identity: the fiction makes us real . literature constructs identity by offering us representations of: nation (canada), both past & present: avonlea (1908). Vancouver (1940"s-today); glimpses of ww, great depression: place: settings of our books: coast to coast: pei, ontario, manitoba, bc (vancouver) all are experienced as home, whether presented as pastoral (pei) or challenging (ontario wilderness)/crowded urban enclave (vancouver"s. What are the similarities/differences: gender: issues of women"s agency: as writers who create literature (anne, Vanessa) & as characters w/in literature (feminism/patriarchy: ethnicity: who counts as a born canadian centrality of white anglo-canada vs. other immigrants situation o indigenous people, from johnson to wagamese indigenous people writing back to the power structure.