This course looks at ways literary writing has contributed to and contested the formation of Canada as a settler colony. Examining a selection of literary works from the stories of European explorers to the present, this course traces how many works have provided the rationale for colonial domination of land and people in Canada, while many others have voiced resistance and imagined alternatives.
This course looks at ways literary writing has contributed to and contested the formation of Canada as a settler colony. Examining a selection of literary works from the stories of European explorers to the present, this course traces how many works have provided the rationale for colonial domination of land and people in Canada, while many others have voiced resistance and imagined alternatives.
