ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nalo Hopkinson, Black Canadians, Code-Switching
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Brown girl in the ring nalo hopkinson. Canadian science fiction and fantasy combined, race and ethnicity in speculative fiction (trickster figures) Linguistic code switching in a single moment language can speak across communities, hybridity of different characters. Bleeding standard english creoles, hybrid form of dialect that is its" own language but comes from other languages. Written in standard english switching from standard english to creoles is how the novel presents itself as a transnational text living in a transnational city like toronto. Post apocalyptic toronto as a place where there are culturally defined lives that need to speak to other people across cultures p. 63 speaking in a more generic language. Jeanne can heal people crossroads figure// life and death, adulthood, ti-jeanne is possessed by this figure: children represented as non-caribbean english isn"t the standard, grounded in the culture of gros-jeanne and her family.
