ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rational Point, Prose Poetry, Japanese Canadians

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 110
• Professor: Ruth Panofsky

Document Summary

Personal context that frames facts (aunt emily) that brings understanding on the part of the narrator. Novel is about a self in crisis. Her working through this trauma to a place of knowing (not really healing) As much a political text as it is a personal quest. She wants to understand what has happened to her mother amniotic deep . A girl"s desire to know her mother her mother has been lost to her and she doesn"t know how or why mother is seminal link. Inherited this terrible history from her canadian side, but she is canadian. She seems to accept it as part of herself she is a canadian woman and a japanese descent and cultural inheritance is essential. But equally significant is her identity as a canadian. Her legacy of trauma that shapes her sense of canadianness is disturbing she needs to figure out a way to negotiate those identities that has those meanings for her.