Hello everyone~
My name is Nargiza and it’s a pleasure to make my introduction to this class! I’m a UBC student (of course) with a major in Political Science and this is my 5thyear at UBC. This year I’m taking classes part time and working the other half so this online course is really helpful in allowing me more fixable timetable! I live in Vancouver and my family moved here around 9 years ago from Toronto. My family are immigrants and we are originally from Tashkent Uzbekistan and we moved to Toronto when I was four years old. As an immigrant the concept of nation building and identity are very interesting to me personality and I believe it will be an interesting topic to discuses it in the context of literature, as it is one of the strongest forms of social self identification and a clear representation of the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. This course works to deconstruct the historical processes involved in Canadian literacy. Looking at the relationship between the building of Canadian literature and nation building. This aspect of the course is the most interesting to me as my background in social science focuses a lot on the creation of identities, both personal and national, as mentioned in the novel, “Nation and Novel”
The course focuses on First Nations and their agency in the process, and their forms of symbolic knowledge, much different from modern Western ones.My expectations from this course are to gain a more in-depth understanding of the concepts and themes. I have a rather shallow idea of the concepts and this course is the perfect way to broaden my understanding of self-identification and novels. I enjoy my field of study in the social science and enjoy literature so I hope the combination of these two will result in an interesting and fun class!
Reference:
15 Things to Do in Tashkent in One Day – A City Guide to Uzbekistan’s Capital – Journal of Nomads. https://www.journalofnomads.com/things-to-do-tashkent-travel-guide/. Accessed 12 Jan. 2020.
Eagleton, Terry. “Review: Nation and Novel by Patrick Parrinder.” The Guardian, 28 Apr. 2006. www.theguardian.com, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/apr/29/highereducation.news.
“Tashkent | Facts, History, & Points of Interest.”Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Tashkent. Accessed 12 Jan. 2020.