EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Susanna Moodie, Roughing It, Slave Narrative
1 Mar 2016
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Canadian literature arguably starts with susanna moodie (born in england. John dunbar (husband) is a military officer who was in the army in south. Africa: neither were making a lot of money or came from a lot of money; susanna upset because career wasn"t taking off like back home. Introduction to roughing it: moodie came to canada because of propaganda so is bitter and jaded. From the sketch uncle joe and his family and the final paragraph in the sketch. Adieu to the woods : again with the contradictory opinions about life in canada. She is talking to an audience so she is clearly conscious of narrative writing and her crafting of a story. From the introduction: military officers not good at emigration, she reveals her own incompetence, we hear very little about her kids and her husband; she writes herself as the protagonist/heroin of her own story.
