English 2060E Lecture Notes - Daphne Marlatt, Eleanor Wachtel, Robert Creeley
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Daphne marlatt was born in perth, australia, spending her childhood in penang, malaysia until she immigrated with her family to north vancouver in 1951 at the age of nine. Marlatt s writing about her own biography suggests that from an early age differences of culture, class, and races were present and powerful, even as she tried to erase her own difference from other residents of. Vancouver, bc, differences that registered in her vocabulary, accent, and cultural expectations. In 1951, you must remember, the idea of multiculturalism was not yet a canadian reality. Instead, marlatt s surrounding culture attempted to present a vision of cultural and ideological homogeneity. In entering in: the immigrant s imagination marlatt writes: Looking back, i think that most of my writing has been a vehicle for entry into what was for me the new place, the new world. Marlatt s early history, then, is one of dislocation and disavowal.
