{"id":1,"date":"2020-01-12T03:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T03:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372reflectionsoncanada\/?p=1"},"modified":"2020-01-12T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T01:05:51","slug":"whats-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372reflectionsoncanada\/2020\/01\/12\/whats-your-story\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Your Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am Stephanie, an English Literature and History double major in my final semester here at UBC. It has been quite a journey. One of the most significant takeaways from my years studying at UBC is that narratives should always be taken with a grain of salt. Somebody out there is ready to tell a new perspective-changing story at a moment’s notice and being stuck in a singular mindset is not going to stop change. At all. That being said, ENGL 372 is going to redefine the definitions of home, nation, and its historical connections to storytelling. Colonization has erased, excluded, and pointedly overwritten indigenous storylines and truths in order to create a European definition of Canada. A description that can still be found in contemporary notions about Canada and the ways the nation should be defined. ENGL 372 explores the different forms of storytelling and the power of stories by confronting moments in time where Indigenous traditions are combatted by European violence.<\/p>\n

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Fifteen Dogs by Andr\u00e9 Alexis<\/p><\/div>\n

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My experience with Canadian Literature is few and far, but my absolute favourite novel of all time is\u00a0Fifteen Dogs<\/em><\/a> by Andr\u00e9 Alexis. It is a novel about two Greek gods giving human intelligence to a selection of fifteen dogs as a part of a wager to determine the parameters of human happiness.\u00a0 It is an exciting spin on the study of the human condition, one which I absolutely adore. I highly recommend it to dog lovers and those who are a<\/span>\u00a0little curious about life. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Dead Girls by Nancy Lee<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another text I have really enjoyed is\u00a0<\/span>Dead Girls <\/em><\/a>by Nancy Lee. It is a collection of short stories that are centred around the disappearance of 60 women from the Downtown Eastside here in Vancouver. The stories contain considerably dark themes around women and the way they interact with their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In terms of this course, I hope that it will open the floor for discourse about racism and the effects of the colonial legacies left behind. For example, how much of the recent incident involving an elderly man taking his twelve-year-old granddaughter to BMO<\/a> are remnants of a colonial legacy? What are the effects of this news article on social thinking? Have stories been manipulated by the institutions of power to present particular narratives that have been approved by said institute of power?<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to exploring the different facets of storytelling with you!<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

-Steph<\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acevedo, Melanie., Photonica, and K.T. Njo. N\/A. N\/A,\u00a0Dead Girls<\/em>, Nancy Lee, McClelland & Stewart, 2002, front cover.<\/p>\n

CBC Books. “Fifteen Dogs.”\u00a0CBC Books<\/em>, https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/canadareads\/fifteen-dogs-1.3972138. Accessed 10 January 2020.<\/p>\n

Lee, Nancy. “Dead Girls.”\u00a0Nancy Lee,<\/em> http:\/\/www.nancyleeauthor.com\/dead-girls. Accessed 10 January 2020.<\/p>\n

Paulson, Ingrid.\u00a0Fifteen Dogs<\/em>. N\/A, Fifteen Dogs<\/em>, Andr\u00e9 Alexis, Coach House Books, 2015, front cover.<\/p>\n

Sterritt, Angela. “Indigenous grandfather and 12-year-old handcuffed in front of Vancouver bank after trying to open an account.”\u00a0CBC News, https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/indigenous-girl-grandfather-handcuffed-bank-1.5419519.\u00a0<\/em>Accessed 10 January 2020.<\/p>\n

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