ENG 2133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Performativity, Canadian Identity
12 Jun 2018
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ENG2133- Lecture 9 – May 30th, 2018
Psycho drama – Suddenly last Summer- Surfacing
Suddenly last Summer (SLS)
• Repression and projection
• Performativity
• Catherie’s catharsis
Surfacing – Atwood
• Nation and/as gender
• Anti-colonial nationalism
• Victimhood
• Uncan(ny)ada
Essays
• NO title page
• Name
• Prof
• Date
• Title
• Start writing
• Work cited MLA
• Nothing else matters
Surfacing
• Nationalist text
• Became known as a feminist novel
• Interested in mental instability
• She believed to live in Canada was to go insane
• To be female is to be asked to go mad or go mad on your own
• Women in her novels very psychological
• Madness is strategic and psychological
• Similar to the yellow wallpaper
• Both SLS and Surfacing have a stressed woman who is unable to speak their own stories at the
core
SLS
• not crazy enough- only seen to be crazy when burning nuns hand
• At no point does her madness weigh more than her sexuality
• Neer appears ad – never dishevelled etc.
• 3rd person writing after rape= clearly psycho
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