{"id":32,"date":"2015-05-12T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T07:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamieking\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-05-23T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T07:13:11","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jamieking\/2015\/05\/12\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 1:1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello and welcome! My name is Jamie King (a name that will be familiar to any of you who watched Summer Heights High<\/a>) and I am a 4th year BA student majoring in Theatre. This is actually one of my final classes before I finish up my time here at UBC and I’m excited that after several terms of literary country hopping, my last days at this school will be focus on the ideas surrounding the storytelling traditions of the country I was born in.\u00a0I consider it a great privilege to study and discuss these topics on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Musqueam Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have worked in theatre for most of my life and was raised by a community of story tellers\/creators\/producers; thus the subject of this class is one that can be reflected through the threads of my life. Integration of new media into theatre is something\u00a0that I don’t think has been fully realized yet and I am very excited to be involved in a class where the dialogue enforces an aspect of social media integration.<\/p>\n

The focus of ENGL 470A seems to be fairly ambitious as it both tries to look at Canadian literature through a post-colonial lens, but beyond that it will actually discuss the literature itself; not only how or if the stories are important but how they are told and how that effects our country and identity. I’m excited to break apart the Canadian literary canon and discuss the inclusion and exclusion of our national narrative. I think that it’s pretty valuable that this class will have a heavy reliance on new media as not only has this been a major focus of mine during my degree but it is also a way, moving forward, of creating a more accessible learning environment. Digitalization as a form of creating greater accessibility was something I came across a few years ago, while reading a book called\u00a0Outwitting History<\/a>; a story that focused on the experiences of\u00a0a group of twenty year olds that, in order to protect Yiddish stories, collected roughly a million books and\u00a0saved hundreds of years of story and language through digitalizing old texts. Which, if you haven’t read it, is\u00a0a great read (and I’m not normally a non-fiction reader). I think that in order to create a viable future for our country we need to create a greater dialogue between forms of media.<\/p>\n

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The Edward Curtis Project by Marie Clements, photo by Jamie Griffiths<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

I think that inclusion of technology in story telling is something that is becoming increasingly more prevalent and valuable (an example of which I have shown above). This is a photo from The Edward Curtis Project<\/em> by Marie Clements, which\u00a0was (amongst other things) a modern theatrical exploration of Curtis’s documentation of The North American Indian<\/a>. I’m excited to bring my personal\u00a0knowledge of and experience with\u00a0indigenous Canadian performance culture to this class, and to learn more about the voice of the Canadian Narrative; how it’s constructed and heard. It’s also pretty thrilling\u00a0that we will be looking at two texts by Tom King as my family religiously listened to the Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour<\/a> when I was growing up and I have never read any of his work (until now).<\/p>\n

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Works\u00a0Cited:<\/p>\n

Clements, Marie and Rita Leistner.\u00a0The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story.\u00a0<\/em>Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2010. Print.<\/p>\n

Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian<\/em>. Northwestern University, 2003. Web. 11 May 2015.<\/p>\n

Enright, Michael. “Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour.”\u00a0Rewind with Michael Enright.\u00a0<\/em>CBC, 28 March 2013. Web. 11 May 2015.<\/p>\n

“Episode 1.1”\u00a0Summer Heights High.\u00a0<\/em>Writ. Chris Lilley. Dir. Stuart McDonald. HBO, 2009. DVD.<\/p>\n

Lansky, Aaron. Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books.<\/em> Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. Print.<\/p>\n

“Musqueam Traditional Territory.” Musqueam: A Living Culture<\/em>. \u00a0Musqueam Indian Band, 2011. Web. 11 May 2015.<\/p>\n

Paterson, Erika.\u00a0<\/span>ENGL 470A: Canadian Studies.<\/em>\u00a0University of British Columbia, 201<\/span>5<\/span>. Web. 1<\/span>1<\/span> May 201<\/span>5<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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