ENG 110 Lecture 8: ENG 110 - Week 8
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Metafiction: piece of art within a piece of art, the narrator self-consciously alludes to the fact that the work is a piece of fiction, comes out of a self-conscious first-person voice, like the yellow wallpaper. First person narration: fallible or unreliable narration. We know something that the narrator doesn"t know: self-conscious, self-aware narrator. Third person narration: stream of consciousness, limited point of view. Obasan: a powerful novel by a canadian writer. Ground breaking text for its political impact: based on the real experiences of japanese canadians during the second world war, published in 1981, many japanese canadians were fishers and farmers and were not permitted to vote. 000 of them in the early 20th century that were actually canadian citizens. This gave rise to the evacuation of japanese from the western coast of. The us also did the same thing but they were far less brutal and were allowed back after the war: canadian policy was black and white.
