ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oral Literature, Metanarrative, Mohawk People
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Immigration, making new home, and complications that come along with that. Indigenous literature: regional themes, survival, struggle against landscape, appropriation, dispossession. Identity, multiculturalism and diversity: can non-indigenous writers write about indigenous history, what makes a piece of literature canadian, no such thing as a monolithic canadian literature. Oral literature: you"re reading a story that"s meant to be listened to. A coyote columbus story : poetic, repetition, humorous and playful even though serious topic. First words : not as an archeological piece but living memory that explains beliefs and culture origins. They both reflect on the power of meta- narratives (the totalizing narratives we create in order to give meaning to the world around us) Terra nurius: nobody"s land, way of thinking has shaped the way we see the first contact between european settlers and indigenous people, we have the idea that europeans discovered the land and the people.
