ENGL 105W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Creative Nonfiction, Canadian Identity
17 Jan 2016
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Writing confirms identity: the fiction makes us real : having art, culture, validates life, to a certain extent. Choice of words: no language is neutral . Language reflects power & value; importance of naming: places & Child"s perspective: writers have more childhood than other people; How literature constructs identity with regard to: people or perhaps they carry more of it with them : nation (canada) both past & present, place (settings of our books, gender, ethnicity. Colonial names: vancouver, victoria, point grey : renamed provinces to reflect british power over the land, makes it their own, makes it feel like the land belongs to them. Aboriginal names vs. colonial names: geography & transportation is reflected by the name vs. settlers named the land after those who discovered them. Genre: what kind of text is it: prose: can be fiction/non-fiction. Non-fiction: factual/creative creative non-fiction (paper shadows: poetry, novels: agg, ih, chnc, stories: a bird in the house: linked stories.
