ENG353Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Margaret Atwood, Metafiction, Transnationalism
Document Summary
Modernist novel in canada: double hook, as for me and my house, beautiful losers. Historical metafiction: the wars, alias grace, beautiful losers (writing of history) Aboriginal: lives of girls and women, monkey beach, essex county. Race and multiculturalism, transnationalism: english patient, what we all long for. Parent child relationships: lives of girls and women, monkey beach, brown girl, double. Coming of age: brown girl, monkey beach, essex, lives of girls and women. Folklore: brown girl in the ring, monkey beach. Exam: think comparatively, be as specific as possible for both sections. Dynamic between vulnerability and control: something to be celebrated, a way to gain agency and power when feeling powerless, limitations to this desire when trying to organize the world. What we all long for control through race, parent child relationships & past. Controlling the amount of spillage in their lives, wanting to control it vs becoming vulnerable to the past (expectations/responsibilities) and to becoming like their parents.
