Update: 2003-7-9


I. Gender, Nation and Global Culture
1. 2/25

General Introduction: Canada Pase And Future
Ann Marie Fleming: "amf's tiresias"; "waving"; "pioneers of x-ray technology"

  • Who Are We?ho Are We?
  • Fleming and Cultural Jam

    • 2.

    3/4

    Talks with Ann Marie Fleming and Jill Sharpe
         Cultural Jam hAMF o Are We?

    3.

    3/11

    Internal and External Boundaries

    Denys Arcand: The Decline of the American Empire (1986); "Can. Lit." by Earle Birney; some poems by Margaret Atwood; "Cape Breton is the Thought Control Centre of Canada" (R. Smith)

    National Identities M. Atwood & Cape Breton&America Vampire

    4.

    3/18

    Two Types of Globalization

    DenysArcand: Stardom(2000)

    Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

    5.

    3/25

    Boundary-Breaking and Boundary Setting

    Michael Ondaatje The English Patient (1)

    Michael Ondaatje The English Patient(2)

    6.

    4/1

    Trauma and Healing

    Michael Ondaatje The English Patient(3)

    Atom Egoyan: The Sweet Hereafter

    7.

    4/8

    Small town Canada: Alice Munro

    The Found Boat

    8.

    4/15

    Body, Gender Identity and Consumer Society

    The Edible Woman:chaps 6-11 (1)

    The Edible Woman:chaps 6-11 (2)

    9.

    4/22

    Body, Gender Identity and Consumer Society

    The Edible Woman:chaps15-21 (1)

    The Edible Woman:chaps15-21 (2)

    10.

    4/29

    Body, Race and Gender Identity

    The Edible Woman chap 27 - 31 (256 - 310)

    Eisha Marjara "Desperately Seeking Helen"
    II. Gender, Race and Surviving Trauma orApocalypse

    11.

    5/6

    1) Caribbean Canadian in Toronto

    Clement Virgo Rude

    "Canadian Experience," "Griff!" Austin Clarke

    12.

    5/13

    2) Survival in the Postmodern & Apocalyptic City

    Don McKellar Last Night

    "Jeremy Podeswa The Five Senses

    13.

    5/20

    3) East-Asian Canadian
    Racial Prejudice: Past and Present

    Helen Lee "Prey"

    "Joy Kogawa Obasan Chap 1-14

    14.

    5/27

    4) Memory and Fragmentary Identity

    Joy Kogawa Obasan Chap 15-leaving for Slocan-Chap 25(1)

    Joy Kogawa Obasan Chap 15-leaving for Slocan- Chap25(2)

    15.

    6/3

    5) Ritual of Reconciliation and Reconstruction

    Joy Kogawa Obasan Chapter 26-end(1)

    Joy Kogawa Obasan Chapter 26-end(2)

    16.

    6/10

    6)Language, Race and Identity

    Mina Shum: Double Happiness

    Language and Ethnic Identity

    17.

    6/17

    7)Final: Review of all previous covered topics

    Nation and Globle Culture & Survival

    Survival & Race and Gender & Language