Canada has been defined as a country of multiple borderlines - geographical, sociopolitical and cultural. The course aims to explore these borderlines as contributing to the structuring of Canadian selfhood. We will focus on texts by women writers of the post WWII era, among them Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood Joy Kogawa, Carol Shields and Dionne Brand in the attempt to understand the relation between the search for a distinctive Canadian national and cultural self-image and the revisioning of female selfhood.
REQUIREMENTS: Active participation, written critical responses, class presentation, referat.