{"id":9,"date":"2016-09-14T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lucashui\/?p=9"},"modified":"2016-09-14T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T21:18:11","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lucashui\/2016\/09\/14\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the Course<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ENGL 470 Canadian Studies: Canadian Literary Genres aims to provide a historical context of Canada through stories extracted from it’s eclectic cultures, people and places. Unlike many nations who began with a unified narrative (for the most part), Canada’s identity is stitched together from stories of the indigenous people and it’s visitors who come from wide span of cultures. Their stories individually and intertwined together create unique “blending pot” of Canada. Over the years, defining voices of the past that made Canada what\u00a0it is today have been muffled or disarranged, and it’s part of this course’s objective to – once again – re-discover them for a few reasons: 1) To learn the stories of our predecessors, 2) To find befitting places for their stories in today’s context and, 3) Accordingly add new discourse and stories of our own into the conversation<\/p>\n

About the Author\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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My name is Lucas, I am a 3rd year English Literature student.\u00a0As someone who often views the world through the lens of “stories” I’m very excited to take this course. To me, stories can be extracted from just about anything, from people, to places, to objects. Two main personal objectives I have for this course are acquiring new stories I’ve yet to hear so that I become richer in knowledge and understanding about Canada, and how\u00a0<\/strong>stories are told so that I become not only a better writer in literal terms, but also an individual that can create my own ideal stories.<\/p>\n

Aside from this blog, I also have one of my own<\/span><\/a> which I use to document my growth as a student, son, artist, writer… and all the other identities that are me. Another passion of mine is fashion. I graduated in Fashion Merchandising at Blanche Macdonald in 2015 and plan to have a serious career in the industry. Literature and power of stories have played a huge role on how I approach fashion, as I see stories in clothing as well, whether it’s new street-wear trends or old couture. Feel free to check out my Lookbook<\/span><\/a> for those of you who are interested \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Looking forward to conversing with you,<\/p>\n

Cheers,
\nLucas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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