ENGB07H3 Lecture 12: Lecture 12.pdf
19 Sep 2013
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Canon is usually chosen by dead white men. Every once in a while a white woman will be thrown in there. Wants to show how there aren"t just white people writing. Second wave - hippies, burning bras, scholars trying to delve into women"s writing and make them known: pauline johnson (1861-1931) Father is a mohawk chief, mother is english. She plays on the notions spectacle and canada becoming a nation. Understands that there is tension between who she is and her as an other White guys marrying natives - played out throughout the story. He was so into indianology that he got one of his own. Frankenstein (his friend henry - obsessed with culture, and wanted to study others) There are levels - husband (like a parent and colonizer), wife as less than him. Don"t use flowery metaphors, have something sustainable, not just pretty. Joe asks if she thinks that all white men are the same.
