EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Untraceable, Globalization, The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Lecture 8 what we all long for ii. The city of toronto: small towns and metropolitan centers in canadian fiction, brand said in an interview: (cid:498))(cid:495)ve (cid:494)read(cid:495) new york and london and paris. And ) thought this city needs to be written like that, too. (cid:499: a novel about a city: toronto as a multicultural, messy, complicated city. and possessing a multiracial and multicultural population. All of willfully untraceable except in the name of the city itself. Each left home in the morning as if making a long journey, untangling themselves from the seaweed of other shores wrapped around their parents. Breaking their doorways, they left the sleepwalk of their mothers and fathers and ran across the unobserved borders of the city, sliding across ice to arrive at their own birthplace the city. They were born in the city from people born elsewhere. (20)
