ENGL 222 Lecture Notes - Border Guard, Massey Lectures
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Vancouver community centres and money: community centres angry about vancouver"s distribution of community centre money fairly. Dunbar community centre is very angry vancouver does not exist to them, just dunbar exists. Massey lecture: thomas king you"re not the indian i had in mind . Indian of fact vs. indian of fiction: the indian vs. indians, the literary indian. Race as a construction, not a condition. Cook reads novel novel gives image of indian does not match thomas king. Writer of the novel has never once seen an indian. Cultural images exist everywhere: what happens to contemporary indians when they"re supposed to meet the literary. Indian: what mental images do we have about place, as perpetuated by the stories we tell about place. Expectations are crafted by stories from siblings, functionality is shaped by parents" expectations for you, cinema. P. 582: border guard helping indians, trying to figure out whether the indian is canadian or.
