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CANADIAN LITERATURE (LAURENCE_Margaret MARGARET LAURENCE (1926-1987)…
CANADIAN LITERATURE
MARGARET LAURENCE (1926-1987) Wrote about her experience as a minority in Africa (strong sense of Christian symbolism) + ethical concern for being white in a colonial state. • Novels + short stories. • One of the major figures in Canadian literature and founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada (with Margaret Atwood).
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ALICE MUNRO (1931 - ) master of the contemporary short story.
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
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MARGARET ATWOOD (1939 - ) poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist. Feminist.
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The Blind Assassin (2000) a novel about a novel,about a science fiction novel. Layered, intermingling stories.
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JOY KOGAWA (1935 - ) poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Her parents were the first generation of Japanese Canadians. She grew up in a predominant white middle-class community. During WW2, she was sent to the internment camp for Japanese Canadians. She wrote Obasan in 1981 = one of the most important books in Canadian lterature , describes Japanese Canadian experience. Imagery of silence, dreams. Themes of memory and forgetting, prejudice and tolerance, identity and justice against injustice.