ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Blazon, Nonlinear Narrative, Internalized Racism
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Similar to elliott clarke thirsty complicates canada as a tolerant multicultural society by highlighting unacknowledged racism. The poem brings these forms of racism into focus through its treatment of the shooting of alan and its aftermath. The poem also sets out to recuperate toronto as a space of possibility by highlight the forms of community and connection in spite of the social barriers. Two philosophers, michel de certou (the practice of everyday life) and. Henri lefebvre (the right to the city) propose certain ideas that have influenced contemporary poets. By taking the city and imbuing it with new meaning it evokes how city dwellers move about in this lived space. According to lefebvre the city is a place of regulation and those who live in it engage in forms that always reshape that space. It"s an artwork open to interpretation and re-interpretation. If you"re writing about the city, these two theorists would be good ones to work with.
