{"id":20860,"date":"2012-02-26T02:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20860"},"modified":"2012-02-26T02:31:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T02:31:03","slug":"engl-3270-03-contemporary-canadian-literature-crossing-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20860","title":{"rendered":"ENGL 3270.03: Contemporary Canadian Literature: Crossing the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.dal.ca\/Classes\/2007%20Summer%20Classes\/3270.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>ENGL 3270.03: Contemporary Canadian Literature: Crossing the Line<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\nDalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<br \/>\nSummer 2007<\/p>\n<p>Dr. C. Dawson<\/p>\n<p>Our study of contemporary Canadian literature will be loosely divided into three sections, each organized around the idea of \u201ccrossing the line.\u201d In the first section the line under consideration will be the border that defines this country. By way of example, our discussion of Tom King\u2019s wonderfully funny story \u201cBorders\u201d might draw on his argument that the 49th parallel is a \u201cfigment of somebody else\u2019s imagination.\u201d Likewise, our readings of Fred Wah\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18432\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Diamond Grill<\/em><\/a> and Wade Compton\u2019s 4<em>9th Parallel Psalm<\/em> might involve a consideration of the ways they each use the metaphor of border crossing to understand their mixed-race identities.<\/p>\n<p>In the second part of the course we will study a number of stories and poems about characters who are seen to have \u201ccrossed a line\u201d in the sense that they have acted in a way that is widely perceived to be transgressive or taboo. Here, for example, we might compare the representation of sexuality in texts as different as Miriam Toews\u2019s <em>A Complicated Kindness<\/em>, a rock-infused Mennonite coming-of-age story, and Timothy Findley\u2019s <em>Not Wanted on the Voyage<\/em>, a post-apocalyptic allegory set on <em>Noah\u2019s Ark<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the final section, the line that is \u201ccrossed\u201d has to do with genre. While building on our earlier discussions of race, nationality, and sexuality in contemporary Canadian literature, we will focus on works by Dionne Brand and Anne Carson, both of whom ostentatiously mix genres\u2014poetry, fiction, autobiography, travelogue, opera!\u2014with great effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGL 3270.03: Contemporary Canadian Literature: Crossing the Line Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Summer 2007 Dr. C. Dawson Our study of contemporary Canadian literature will be loosely divided into three sections, each organized around the idea of \u201ccrossing the line.\u201d In the first section the line under consideration will be the border that defines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1564,1196,8],"tags":[9771,6379,9770,8386,9768,9767,9769,9772],"class_list":["post-20860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-courses","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-anne-carson","tag-dalhousie-university","tag-dionne-brand","tag-fred-wah","tag-miriam-toews","tag-timothy-findley","tag-tom-king","tag-wade-compton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}