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Paratext and Literary Value
Valuing Canadian Literature and the Paratexts of Yann Martel’s <cite>Life of Pi</cite>
Literary Awards
Literary Value and Appropriation
Assignment
An Introduction to Gender and Sexuality
Gender and <cite>Canadian Literature</cite>
Why Do We Still Need Feminism?
Feminism and the Canadian Literary Canon
Feminist Criticism(s) in <cite>Canadian Literature</cite>
Exercise: Monkman and Decolonizing Sexuality
An Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada
A Note on Indigenous Terminology
Literary History
The "Civ/Sav Distinction" and "Progress"
Colonial History
Exercise: What Do We Mean By "Here?"
Daniel David Moses’s "Inukshuk" and Colonial Transformations
Poetic Visuality and Experimentation
"The Gravel Pit" by M. Travis Lane
Reading Notes: "The Gravel Pit"
An Example Close Reading of "The Gravel Pit"
Assignment: "The Gravel Pit"
Poetic Connections to "The Gravel Pit"
Creative Response Exercise
An Introduction to Producing and Evaluating Canadian Texts
The Massey Report and Cultural Production
The Canada Council
Publishers, Editors, and Agents
Literary Celebrity
What is Canadian Literature?
Why Study Canadian Literature?
On the Idea of <em>Criticism</em>
On <em>Positioning</em> in Criticism
Close Reading Journal Articles
Close Reading Strategies for Journal Articles
Journal Articles: From Observations to Argument
Writing a Critical Summary
Annotated Bibliography
Feminist History of Literature and Culture in Canada
Early Feminism in Canada, Late 1600s–1800s
Emerging Feminisms and Suffrage, Late 1800s–1920s
The Modern Woman and Modernist Masculinity, 1920s–1950s
Little Magazines and Feminism
Second-wave Feminist Expansion, 1950s–1980s
<cite>Chatelaine</cite>
Third-wave Feminisms, 1980s and Onwards
CWILA and Literary Representation
Introduction to Nationalism
Entering the Discourses of the Journal
Introductory Activity
General Questions for Literary Analysis
Close Reading Prose
Strategies for Close Reading Prose
What is Genre Theory?
Reading Notes: "Extracts from a Brazilian Journal"
Shifting Representation: Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl
Discussion Questions
Assignment: Shifting Representation
Nationalism, 1500–1700s: Exploration and Settlement
Reading Prompts
"New Albion" by Meredith Quartermain
"Inukshuk" by Daniel David Moses
Close Reading Poetry
Goals of Close Reading Poetry
Styles of Poetry
Poetry: From Observations to Argument
Reading Notes: "Blind Man" by Eva Tihanyi
Example: Close Reading Write-up for "Blind Man"
Poetic Connections to "Blind Man"
Poetry and Gender: "A Woman’s Shoe"
Postfeminism and Conservative Feminism
Postfeminism
Conservative Feminism
Assignment
Orature and Literature
George Copway
Residential Schools
Collecting Orature
Challenges of Textualizing Orature
Translation
"Raven Travelling" by John Sky (Skaai of the Qquuna Qiighawaai)
"Progress" by Emma LaRocque
"Shawnandithit (Last of the Beothuks)" by Joan Crate
Assignment: A Selection of Indigenous Creators
Narratives of Empire: Hearne and Mackenzie
Discussion Questions
Assignment: Samuel Hearne
Queer Theory and Canada
Canadian LGBTQ* History: An Introduction
Destabilizing Sexual Identities
Performativity
Nationalism, 1800s: Loyalism and Nation-building
Reading Prompts
"Grey" by John Barton
"Trusting the Song" by Erín Moure
Poetry and Racialization
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and Racialization
Duncan Campbell Scott
"The Onondaga Madonna" (1898) by Duncan Campbell Scott and Racialization
"A Cry from an Indian Wife" (1885) by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and Racialization
Further Readings about Racialization
<cite>Swamp Angel</cite> by Ethel Wilson
Key Themes
Assignment: Critical Summary
Questions
<cite>Roughing It in the Bush</cite> by Susanna Moodie
Questions
Exercise: Moodie’s Subjective Eye
Exercise: The Moodie-Atwood Dialogue
Exercise: The Moodie-Ruffo Dialogue
<cite>Ana Historic</cite> by Daphne Marlatt
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Critical Summary
Visual Poetry and Indigenous-Settler Issues: Shane Rhodes and Jordan Abel
Shane Rhodes and Visualizing Settler-Indigenous Interactions
"Circle the Wagons: In Ink: mediatation on Treaty Two" by Shane Rhodes
"Settlement, Mining, Lumbering, Trading: mediatation on Treaty Eight" by Shane Rhodes
"The Promise/Broken Land: mediatation on Treaty Three" by Shane Rhodes
"Soundscape as Landscape #1: Peaceful, Unified, and Unarmed" by Shane Rhodes
Jordan Abel and Ethnographic Erasure
"The silhouette of a pole on the shore of the Nass River" by Jordan Abel
Exercise: Poetic Connections
Nationalism, late 1800s–1950s: Canadian Immigration and War
Reading Prompts
"Antiphony" by George Elliott Clarke
"Bequest" by Christopher Levenson
"grain" by matt robinson
<cite>Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)</cite> by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Critical Summary
<cite>The Wars</cite> by Timothy Findley
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Critical Summary
<cite>Funny Boy</cite> by Shyam Selvadurai
Opening Questions
Further Questions
Assignment: Critical Summary
Nationalism, 1950s–1970s: Cultural Nationalism, the Massey Commission, and Thematic Criticism
Reading Prompts
"Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta" by Roger Farr
"Meeting Diefenbaker" by Jay Ruzesky
Reading Visual Poetry
Reading Notes: "this half is for the ceremony"
An Example Close Reading of "this half is for the ceremony"
Continuing the Analysis
Canada Reads
The History of CBC and the Nation
The Structure of Canada Reads
The Economics of Canada Reads
Canada Reads and its Discontents
Assignment
Appendix: Canada Reads and Le Combat des Livres Winners
Nationalism, 1960s onwards: Multiculturalism
Reading Prompts
"anon" by Adebe D. A.
"Where are you from?" by Angela Long
<cite>The Jade Peony</cite> by Wayson Choy
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Critical Summary
Nationalism, 1980s onwards: Contesting Multiculturalism
Reading Prompts
"The Cida Poet Writes of Guyana" by Cyril Dabydeen
"The Walls Are Too High" by Deborah Schnitzer
<cite>What We All Long For</cite> by Dionne Brand
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Critical Summary
Assignment: Compare/Contrast with <cite>The Jade Peony</cite>
Post-nationalism? Regional, National, and Global Connections
Further Resources
Nationalism, Now: Ongoing National Conversations
Reading Prompts
"News From Another Room (Simple)" by Steven Heighton
"Potluck" by Marilyn Iwama
"Heritage" by Roger Nash
Nationalism and Literature: Cross-Genre Connections
Reading Prompts
"Grand Fir" by George Bowering
"Still Life With Apple" by Shane Rhodes
"Corn Road" by J. D. Carpenter
English-Language Comics and Graphic Novels in Canada
<cite>Essex County</cite> and Canada Reads
Legislating Values
Valuing Canadian Comics
Value and Evaluation Exercise
Comics Publishing Exercise
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
"A Strong Race Opinion" (1892) by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
Stolen Stories Assignment
"A Red Girl's Reasoning" (1913) by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
Poetry
"The Cattle Thief (1895)" by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
“The Indian Corn Planter” (1912) by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
“The Corn Husker” (1903) by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake): Poetic Comparisons and Connections
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake): Further Readings
Defamiliarization and Reconceptualization
"for bing ai" by Rita Wong
"Summer 1964. Mexico" by George Bowering
"Me n Arleen Usd to Drive Evree Wher" by bill bissett
"Auditory Camouflage" by Colin Morton
"it ain’t exactly heaven" by Wayne Keon
Indigenous Literary History (1960s-1990)
1967 and "Lament for a Confederation"
1970s–1980s: Literary Developments
The Year 1990
Indigenous Literary Nationalism
"Leather and Naughahyde" by Marilyn Dumont
"The Red in Winter" by Emma LaRocque
<cite>A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder</cite> by James De Mille
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Critical Summary
<i>The Rez Sisters</i> by Tomson Highway
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Comparing and Contrasting Highway & Ryga
Assignment: Critical Summary
<cite>Green Grass, Running Water</cite> by Thomas King
Exercise: Entering the Discourses of the Journal
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Contextualizing Literature
Assignment: Critical Summary
<i>Monkey Beach</i> by Eden Robinson
Key Themes
Questions
Assignment: Critical Summary
Bronwyn Malloy
Listening to Canada: The Weakerthans’ “One Great City!”
Preparing to Analyze “One Great City!”
Literary Analysis of The Weakerthans' "One Great City!"
Activities and Resources: The Weakerthans' "One Great City!"
Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd
Ceilidh Hart
Sophie McCall and Christine Kim
L. Camille van der Marel
Tiffany Johnstone
Gillian Roberts
Sarah Banting
Carl Watts
Nadine Fladd
Brenna Clarke Gray
Farah Moosa
Brendan McCormack
Shannon Smyrl
Lucia Lorenzi
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