Date Theories and Texts References & Examples

Tentative Schedule

1. 2/26

Postmodernism and Canadian Postmodernism: General Introduction

  • Margaret Atwood: General Introduction & Some Poems (1)

 

1, Who are we?
1. Canadian Postmodernism and Globalization: Margaret Atwood
2. 3/4

Canadian Postmodernism: Margaret Atwood's Poems as Examples

  • Hutcheon "Introduction" (The Canadian Postmodern) (2)
  • Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale: I-V Women's Positions in History

 
3. 3/11 Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale: VI - X Writing and the Female Body

4. 3/18 Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale: XI - Historical Notes Historiographical Metafiction

5. 3/25 Atwood -- The Blind Assassin: I-IV Women's Positions in History

6. 4/1 Atwood -- The Blind Assassin: V-VII Women and Capitalism

7.4/8 Atwood -- The Blind Assassin: VIII - X Science Fiction

8. 4/15 Atwood -- The Blind Assassin: XI- XV The Female Artists in a Global City


Sasha, *Alice

2. Canadian Postcolonialism and Globalization: Two Chinese-Canadian Writers

9. 4/22

Postmodernism vs. Postcolonialism: Ambivalence vs. Contamination
10. 4/29 SKY Lee - Disappearing Moon Cafe I- III as Historiographical Metafiction
 
11. 5/6 SKY Lee - Disappearing Moon Cafe The Female Artist as a Migrant

Stephanie, Clary
12. 5/13 Caren Kaplan: "Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies"
Larissa Lai - Salt Fish Girl: 1-97 Women's Positions Past and Future
13. 5/20 Larissa Lai - Salt Fish Girl: 98-206 Global Mix vs. Postcolonial Hybridity Theories of Canadian
14. 5/27
  • Larissa Lai - Salt Fish Girl: the ending
  • The Postmodern vs. Postcolonial: Usages of History and Language
  • The Four Novels, Noubese Philip's and Laiwan's Poems as Examples
1. "Discourse on the Logic of Language" & 'Universal Grammar" (by Marlene Nourbese Philip)
2. "Imperialism of Syntax" by Laiwan
3. "Half-Bred Poetics" by Fred Wah
4. '"Don't ever ask for the true story": Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin.'

: 1, 2

Teresa, *Stephanie
15. 6/3
  • Canadian Literature in the Era of Globalization: Boundaries and Home
  • Imbert, Patrick. "Globalization and difference: displacement, culture and homeland."(5)
    (One Possibility: Online Discussion with Larissa Lai)
  
16. 6/10 Paper Presentation  

 

* Sources:

  1. Atwood, Margaret. Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995. London: Virago Press,1998.
  2. Hutcheon, Linda. The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction. Oxford University Press, 1988.
  3. Sugars, Cynthia. Unhomely states: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, 2004.
  4. Brydon, Diana. Canadian Writers Negotiating Home Within Global Imaginaries (part of a book length project on "Writing Home")
  5. Imbert, Patrick. "Globalization and difference: displacement, culture and homeland." GLOBALIZATIONS 1. 2 (2004): 194-204.

Reference:

Brydon, Diana. "Post-colonialism Now: Autonomy, Cosmopolitanism, and Diaspora." Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium. <http://www.globalautonomy.ca/global1/index.jsp>.
---. "Transforming Knowledges: global interactions in Canadian space."
Davey, Frank. Post-National Arguments: The Politics of the Anglophone-Canadian Novels since 1967. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993.
Gikandi, Simon. 2001. Globalization and the claims of postcoloniality. South Atlantic Quarterly 100 (3): 627-58.
Moss, John, ed. Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P; 1987.
Moss, Laura. Is Canada postcolonial?: Unsettling Canadian literature. Waterloo, Ont : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003.
Tomlinson, John. 1999. Globalization and culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.