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Canadian
Literatures
Contestation of Canadian Cultural
nationalism in the 1980s and 1990s
*Breaking of the oppositions:
Nature/culture (i.e. increasing urban emphasis,
aboriginal approaches to the natural world)
Mainstream/minority cultures (i.e. from
biculturalism to multiculturalism)
Diasporic
Subject
Indigenous subject
Diasporic writers, topics and
texts
Nino Riccis Going to the Moon
2) What other binary pairs are at work in the text, i.e. in relation to the setting,
geographical, linguistic, etc?
3) The story deals with the question of belonging. But, where is home?
(In)Visibility (Visible
minorities)
(Questioning) Identity
politics
Racism (gender/race)
Ex-centricity
Irony
Corinne A. Lees Recipe
Critique of multiculturalism
Marketing of cultural identity
History of discrimination
Racism (gender/race)
Ex-centricity
Irony
The Marketing of the Multicultural
Definitions of Irony
(according to Linda Hutcheon, Circling )
doubled or split discourse which has the
potential to subvert from within (154)
a way of resisting and yet acknowledging
the power of the dominant (163)
one way of creatively modifying or even
twisting the language to signal the
foreignness of both the user and her/his
experience (163)
Questions on Gotos The Body Politic