ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Turtle Island (North America), Metanarrative, Cultural Appropriation
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Migration, immigration as canada is a very diverse culture. What it means to be canadian, as there is no (cid:498)identity(cid:499) to being canadian per say: e. g. Ca author margaret attwood"s writing encompasses european: currently living in a cultural appropriation period; e. g. non-indigenous writer"s. No such thing as monolithic cdn literature, as cdn encompasses such a diverse spread of writing about indigenous history : what makes a piece of canadian writing canadian? settings/person inhabitants. Thomas king writes out of an oral tradition. Reproduce the verbal habits, idiosyncrasies of the writer. Question about how time is conceived in indigenous writings: e. g. past and present always being contemporary. Coyoting referred to wandering around playing tricks/destroyer on people as well as having tricks played on him: depicted as female in king"s story, usually described as a male. Thomas king (cid:498)a coyote columbus story(cid:499) & brian maracle"s (cid:498)the first words(cid:499) Both stories are concerned with beginnings and originary moments.
