ENG 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Serge Doubrovsky, Cultural Tourism, Prose Poetry
10 Dec 2017
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Professor jonathan rollins - fall 2017 - ryerson university. Review: what issues seen in previous texts and lectures in the semester can be seen her in fred. Hybridity - green grass, running water; the awakening. Di erence - gender, class, social status, race. Border between wah"s chinese heritage, and his swedish heritage. What it was like to live in a white western world while being a mixed race individual (canada: code-switching - linguistic and cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, transnational (operating across borders, genre hybridity, hyphen. Fred wah"s auto-bio- ctional diamond grill (1996) is a problem. In doing so, he raises a number of complex di cult" questions regarding the contested nature of diasporas (dispersion of people from their original homeland to di erent locations) and diasporas and his own identity to diasporic displacements. Each time he crosses the threshold, he de nitely kicks open the swinging door that divides and also connects these two spaces.
