ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Power Of A Point, Canadians Of German Ethnicity, Oral Literature
23 Apr 2018
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Examining trauma that is caused by impacts upon whole communities: war, social engineering, mass violence, and struggles for power. Contexts include treatment of indigenous peoples, american slavery and its aftermath, genocides in former yugoslavia and rwanda, vietnam war, latin america dictatorships, bombing of hiroshima, wwi, etc. Eside(cid:374)tial (cid:272)hools a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g (cid:862)hidde(cid:374)(cid:863) ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) histories: now beginning to be taught, discussed in media openly. Japanese internment during wwii (property expropriated, homes taken, moved to alberta even though these people had shown no signs of political alignment with japan) Internment of italian and german canadians during wwii: refusal in 1939 to allow ms st louis, a ship carrying 937 jewish german refugees to land, head tax on chinese immigrants. Indian horse: explores how recovery from cultural devastation might be possible when the destruction and denigration of the culture is still ongoing, racism against first nations is as strong as ever, even though the residential schools are closed.
