CANS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Montreal Gazette, Heritage Minutes, Dramatization

• School: McGill University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANS 310
• Professor: Shelly Butler

Document Summary

Toda(cid:455)(cid:859)s (cid:396)eadi(cid:374)g the inconvenient indian prologue, chapter 1. In-class audio: the dead dog caf comedy hour episode 1 season 1. Ca(cid:374) get a se(cid:374)se of to(cid:373) ki(cid:374)g(cid:859)s st(cid:455)le: often the butt of his own jokes, pokes fun at symbols. The inconvenient indian: a curious account of native people in north america. The intro is like a proposal in disguise: title, scope, argument, terms, refs are all discussed. Pokes fun at stuff we try not to talk about. Not chronological about how we talk about it and how we know and remember it (meta) Telling histories how we dramatize it, sell it, etc. , how stereotypes get reproduced and reproduced. King gives a good template for proposal writing in his prologue he gives: how he came up with the title, what his argument is, the scope of/how he will go about his research.