ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Amy Tan

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

Canon: a body of writing or other creative works recognized as standard or authoritative; stands the test of time and is perceived as valuable in changing cultural contexts; the most highly esteemed literary works in a given culture. The problem with a canon is you have an idea of a dominant culture, and all the others walks of life are brushed aside, these become marginalized. Ideology: an explicit or tacit sharing of attitudes, values, assumptions or principles; a covert means of social control, made up of concepts and categories skewed in favour of prevailing power structured. Coming of age can be viewed with ideology complicating someone"s sense of identity construction. There can be constructions of identity"s that never seem to get finished. Construction can be that how you feel about yourself now or how you actually are is not good enough. There is someone already there pushing you to build yourself.