ENGLISH 761
Framing Can Lit
Winter 2025
Topics
- Contemporary Canadian literature
- Indigenous literature
- Decolonial identity
- Queer writing
- Borders
Readings
- Empty Spaces
- A History of My Brief Body
- Jonny Appleseed
- No Language Is Neutral
- Brown Girl in the Ring
- 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.
- Sugars, Cynthia. "Introduction." The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature, edited by Cynthia Sugars, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 1-4.
- 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.
- Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. "Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor." Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1–40.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stewart, Janice. “Queerly Canadian: Introduction.” Canadian Literature, no. 205, Summer 2010, pp. 6–10.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027