Canada

eh??
And the tale began..
1964
6 weeks
4 parties
1 flag
The monarchists wanted the Union Jack, the Legion
wanted the Red Ensign, the Creditistes wanted the
fleur-de-lys and Dief (John Diefenbaker) wanted
himself shaking hands with the Queen.
Limbo
the Maple Leaf had no symbols of the past.

The Roots of the Leaf
The Colonial Mind-Set
The Giant Next Door
The Melting Pot
The Distance Between Us

Source: http://truthseekers.cultureunplugged.com/

Ironic Modesty

Postmodernism

Pastiche
Margaret Atwood
The central image of Canadian
literature is the image of survival
and the character of the victim.

Thus our literature reflects an
attitude to life that aims no higher
than survival.

Bezmozgis
Often connected to Jonathan Franzen, David
Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow
His main (self-identified) influence: Isaak Babel
Traditions

How would you identify his work?

Social or Psychological Realism
Jewish tradition? Immigrant? American?
Canadian?
One or all?
The Jewish Plight
The Immigrants struggle and nostalgia
The Canadian survival and victim
American by default
B on A
What, in your opinion, makes a piece of fiction work?
a piece of fiction has to have at its core some
kind of irretrievable loss. There are an infinite
number of irretrievable losses ... The form of the story
must then honor that loss without drifting into
parody on one side or melodrama on the otherwith
melodrama being the lesser crime.

Theyre Canadian eh?
Joni
Mitchell
Kiefer (and
Donald)
Sutherland
Pamela
Anderson
Kim Cattral
Neil Young
James Cameron
Michael J. Fox
Ryan Gossling
Bryan Adams
Avril Lavigne
Keanu Reeves
(Jim Carrey only became a
US citizen in 2004)