{"id":59,"date":"2015-07-31T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/470classconference\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2015-08-03T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T01:25:28","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/470classconference\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, ENGL 470! Welcome to our Conference website,\u00a0To Indigenous Literature and Beyond!\u00a0<\/i><\/h4>\n
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Image by Jocelyn Bussieres<\/p><\/div>\n

The ENGL 470 online conference is a class-wide project that aims to create dialogue on how unique interventions can affect the future of Canadian literature. It is inspired by Canadian Literature<\/i>\u2019s 50th anniversary edition, which \u201csuggests some strategies for changing the ways we read, write, publish and think about literature in Canada\u201d (Erika Paterson). Each conference group will research either one of the interventions featured in Canadian Literature <\/i>or a new intervention of their creation, will engage in dialogue with other groups and their research, and will synthesize their finished research and dialogue into a final summary, to be presented at the conference\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

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Our group\u2019s research is based on Daniel Coleman\u2019s intervention, \u201cEpistemic Justice, CanLit, and the Politics of Respect.\u201d Coleman resurrects Charles Taylor\u2019s \u201ccall for epistemic justice,\u201d a call that seeks to make us \u201cas students of the Canadian literatures\u201d aware of the assumptions inherent in how we not only judge but analyze literature. Our \u201cContinentally-derived theories\u201d make us interpret works of non-Continental literature through the Continental lens, resulting in knowledge bases that facilitate incongruities such as classifying \u201cthe works of Thomas King or Eden Robinson as examples of postmodernism.\u201d We are thus diverted from the native epistemologies of the non-Continental literature that we seek to understand by our own native, Continental epistemology\u2013our theory of knowledge.<\/p>\n

Following Coleman’s intervention,\u00a0we intend to explore the following\u00a0questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. How is Indigenous literature being read through the Continental epistemology?<\/li>\n
  2. How is this epistemology being challenged?<\/li>\n
  3. How can we separate from our epistemology and move into the epistemology surrounding Indigenous literature?<\/li>\n
  4. What does the \u201cpolitics of respect\u201d entail? How\u00a0have we\/how can we engage with it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Our ultimate goal is to achieve a new understanding of our engagement with literature, of how we can read not only the non-Continental storytellers, but the Continental storytellers\u2014\u201cthe Moodies and Atwoods\u201d\u2014as well.<\/p>\n

    Works Cited<\/p>\n

    Coleman, Daniel. \u201cEpistemic Justice, CanLit, and the Politics of Respect.\u201d Canadian Literature\u00a0<\/i>204 (2010): 124-126,163.\u00a0ProQuest. <\/i>Web. 24 July 2015.<\/p>\n

    Paterson, Erika. \u201cOnline Class Conference Instructions.\u201d\u00a0ENGL 470A Canadian Literary Genres May 2015<\/em>. U\u00a0of British Columbia. Web. 24 July\u00a02015.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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