1. 2/25

I. Gender, Nation and Global Culture
1. General IntroductionIntrod; "Who Are We?"Fleming and Culture Jam

Introduction: Canada past and present;
Ann Marie Fleming: "amf's tiresias"; "waving"; "pioneers of x-ray technology"

2. 3/4

3. 3/11

2. Internal and External Boundaries national identities

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)

4. 3/18

3. Two Types of Globalization

Denys Arcand: Stardom (2000);
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

5. 3/25

4. Boundary-Breaking and Boundary Setting
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

6. 4/1

5. Trauma and Healing

Atom Egoyan: The Sweet Hereafter
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

7. 4/8

6. Identity Crisis in Teenage and Old Age:

Cynthia Scott The Company of Strangers (film)
Alice Munro "Something I Have Been Meaning to Tell You" "The Found Boat"

8. 4/15

7. Body, Gender Identity and Consumer Society

Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman chaps 6-11 (pp. 42 - 106)

9. 4/22

10. 4/29

8. Body, Race and Gender Identity

Eisha Marjara "Desperately Seeking Helen"
Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman chap 27 - 31 (256 - 310)

11. 5/6

II. Gender, Race and Surviving Trauma or Apocalypse:
1) Caribbean Canadian in Toronto

Clement Virgo Rude
"Canadian Experience," "Griff!" Austin Clarke

12. 5/13

2) Survival in the Postmodern & Apocalyptic City 1. Last Night; 2. The Five Senses

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

Memory and Fragmentary Identity

Joy Kogawa Obasan Chap 15-leaving for Slocan-Chap 25

15. 6/3

Ritual of Reconciliation and Reconstruction
Joy Kogawa Obasan 26 -- end.

16. 6/10

Language, Race and Identity

Mina Shum Double Happiness
M. Nourbese Philip "Discourse on the Logic of Language" "Universal Grammar";
Laiwan "The Imperialism of Syntax"

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