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ENGLISH 761

Framing Can Lit

Graduate

Winter 2025

Topics

  • Contemporary Canadian literature
  • Indigenous literature
  • Decolonial identity
  • Queer writing
  • Borders

Readings

  • Empty Spaces
    Jordan Abel · unspecified
  • A History of My Brief Body
    Billy-Ray Belcourt · unspecified
  • Jonny Appleseed
    Joshua Whitehead · unspecified
  • No Language Is Neutral
    Dionne Brand · unspecified
  • Brown Girl in the Ring
    Nalo Hopkinson · unspecified
  • Hutcheon, Linda. “The Glories of Hindsight: What We Know Now.” Re: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism After Modernism. Ed. Robert David Stacey. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2010, pp. 39-56.
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  • Sugars, Cynthia. "Introduction." The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature, edited by Cynthia Sugars, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 1-4.
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  • Davey, Frank. “Canadian Postmodernisms: Misreadings and Non-Readings.” Re: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism After Modernism, edited by Robert David Stacey, Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2010, pp. 9-37.
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  • Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. "Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor." Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1–40.
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  • Robinson, Dylan. "Intergenerational Sense, Intergenerational Responsibility." Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, edited by Dylan Robinson and Keavy Martin, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016, pp. 271–292.
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  • LaRocque, Emma. “Contemporary Metis Literature: Resistance, Roots, Innovation.” The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature, edited by Cynthia Sugars, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 129–49.
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  • Stewart, Janice. “Queerly Canadian: Introduction.” Canadian Literature, no. 205, Summer 2010, pp. 6–10.
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  • Kamboureli, Smaro. "The Diasporized Body: Diaspora, Affect, Translation." Narratives of Migration in Contemporary Canadian Literature, edited by Maria Löschnigg and Martin Löschnigg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009, pp. 19-44.
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  • Roberts, Gillian. “Introduction: Prizing Canadian Literature: The Booker, the Giller, and the Governor General’s Awards.” Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture, University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp. 15–38. DOI: 10.3138/9781442694583-002.
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  • Maynard, Robyn. “Reading Black Resistance through Afrofuturism: Notes on Post-Apocalyptic Blackness and Black Rebel Cyborgs in Canada.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 39, 2018, pp. 29–58. DOI:10.3138/topia.39.03.
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