{"id":57,"date":"2016-05-16T21:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T04:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawu\/?p=57"},"modified":"2016-05-16T22:09:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T05:09:21","slug":"engl-470a-canadian-studies-in-literature-l-assignment-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawu\/2016\/05\/16\/engl-470a-canadian-studies-in-literature-l-assignment-11\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGL 470A: Canadian Studies in Literature \/ Assignment 1:1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello there, and welcome to my English 470A blog. This will be a safe, creative, and open space to record my exploration of relationships between Canadian literature and storytelling with a focus on contexts at the intersection of Indigenous and European history. I welcome any comments, questions, and suggestions, and am open to hearing your thoughts on the topics I will be writing on for the duration of this course.<\/p>\n

My name is Sandra Wu, a rising senior majoring in English Literature and minoring in Creative Writing. I was born and raised in Vancouver with full Taiwanese heritage<\/a>. My mother, a Mandarin teacher of 30+ years, made it a lifetime goal to never have me lose my roots with the language or culture she was born into, and in retrospect, I am grateful to have suffered through more than a decade of grumpy Saturday mornings in Chinese school. Between learning the English alphabet with ease and rummaging through my brain to memorize the Chinese phonetics<\/a>, four-year-old Sandra could not understand the importance or need to preserve one\u2019s cultural identity until much later on.<\/p>\n

I am eager to examine Canadian literature through the voices of indigenous people because it paves the path to truly understanding their sense of\/lack of belonging in the modern Canadian landscape. ENGL 470A provides an opportunity to analyze and scrutinize the tactics used by the colonizers during the process of nation-building, and I believe it is crucial to understand the rooted tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples before we can comment on how the antagonist party needs to reform its ways.<\/p>\n

Again, I am super excited to be embarking on this journey of learning more about my culturally rich and beautifully diverse country. I look forward to sharing and changing perspectives with everyone!<\/p>\n

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Until next time,<\/p>\n

Sandra Wu<\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/p>\n

“Canada’s rejection of inquiry into violence against Aboriginal women is a national disgrace.”\u00a0Rabble.ca.\u00a0<\/em>23 September 2013. Web. 14 May 2016. Image.<\/p>\n

eChineseLearning. “Chinese Pinyin (Part 1).”\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5HjfI0n7JIM. YouTube. YouTube, 22 February 2011. Web. 14 May 2016.<\/p>\n

“Taiwan: Culture and Heritage.”\u00a0Taiwan – The Heart of Asia.\u00a0<\/em>27 July 2015. Web. 14 May 2016.<\/p>\n

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