ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dionne Brand, Asian Canadians, Canadian Identity
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What we all long for dionne brand. Reading characters for their regional character rather than their national character more than one identity. The national is not the only thing we identify with, but race divides people along political lines. Transnational canadian fiction, characters who are between different cultures/nations but trauma lies in another nation. The global city and its" flaws and beauty. Arguing for the city as a place of possibility for people who don"t identify as canadian and those who don"t identify as coming from elsewhere. P. 4 bottom characters are being observed from a distance, public transit and how many people it carries. Diasporic canadian identity in paradoxical terms, people don"t want to experience the movement and flow forever, to think about the land and stay on it. Stop the shifting by adopting the language of capitalism, going to university etc.
