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[...] If there were some recourse, I would take it. A cupful of grains in my open hand, a
smoothing out, finding the impurities, then removing them piece by piece. And then, to
be satisfied with what remains." (702) - Answers-Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thien
All the Spikes but the Last - Answers-Written by F.R Scott.
An epic poem mythologizing the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) as a
'triumph.' It called attention to the 6k+ Chinese labourers that worked in brutal working
conditions as racist immigration policies attempted to legally disenfranchise them
despite being a vital role in the CPR's completion
An example of Canadian Modernisms - Answers-F.R Scott's The Canadian Authors
Meet
A series of critical essays and poems that were significant to Canadian modernism and
contributed to Scott's critique of the Canadian Authors' Association.
Biotexts - Answers-Short autobiographical fragments.
For example: In Diamond Grill, biotexts are used to focus on the poet's upbringing as a
mixed race child that creates a sense of ongoing discovery through the collection.
Call My People Home - Answers-Written by Dorothy Livesay. Written as a rebuttal to
official propaganda that framed Japanese-Canadian internment camps as 'peaceful' and
necessary in their relocation throughout WWII.
Canadian Modernism - Answers-A period of aesthetic innovations / movements that
were driven by the desire to break away from romantic nationalism that was
characterized by the confederation period in Canada.
It rejected Victorian ideas , values, literary conventions yet registered a sense of
uncertainty about the future. It was also used to create works that reflected Canada's
grow and maturity as an independent country.
Chinese Exclusion Act - Answers-1923 - Barred Chinese immigration altogether.
Chinese Immigration Act - Answers-1885 - passed after the CPR to discourage Chinese
immigration into Canada which included a provision that required all Chinese
immigrants to pay a headtax of $50 (which increased to $500) to enter to country
Declension - Answers-The process where standard grammar produces variations on
different parts of speech - for instance, by classifying nouns according to their number
and gender.
, Seen in: M. NourBese Philip's "Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with
the Flying Cheek-bones"
Diamond Grill - Answers-Written by Fred Wah.
Documentary Poem - Answers-A form of poetry in which historical / found materials
such as photos, interviews, newspapers, testimonies, etc, were incorporated into a
writer's thoughts to create a divide between one's subjective thoughts and the objective
truth/facts. It also included lyrical elements to creatively document significant social and
political changes in historic events in history.
An example is: Call My People Home
Ekphrasis - Answers-A literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art.
Seen: In the Skin of a Lion. Used to raise questions about ethics of representing the
scene being viewed. It aestheticizes the workers and works as a commentary on the
representation of these figures
Half-breed politics - Answers-A feature in diasporic writing.
Healing Ceremonies - Answers-Participatory medicine involved in being a witness or
participant in ceremonies, involving the belief in the ceremonial and potentially
medicinal power of performance
Historiographic Metafiction - Answers-Historiographic metafiction was a postmodern
historical novel that was both fictional yet concerned with acts of reading and writing
history as well. It included how fiction and history were equally made by the writer and
linked the novelist and historian on shared elements that included the representation of
the writer's thoughts and feelings.
An example is: In the Skin of a Lion as it disrupts the official history and records of
Toronto and its combined conventions of a realist fiction and postmodern metafiction
that included representations of the novelist and historiographer at work. It also merged
fact and fiction to raise questions about the way the story is narrativized.
In the Skin of a Lion - Answers-Written by Michael Ondaatje. Detailed the history of
Toronto and its immigrant workers who played a large role in the building of the city that
combined conventions of realistic fiction and post-modern metafiction that included
representations of the novelist and historiographer, Patrick lewis. It often used dreams
to foreground its incompleteness through fragmentation.
M. NourBese Philip - Answers-Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with
the Flying Cheek Bones, Discourse on the Logic of Language
[...] If there were some recourse, I would take it. A cupful of grains in my open hand, a
smoothing out, finding the impurities, then removing them piece by piece. And then, to
be satisfied with what remains." (702) - Answers-Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thien
All the Spikes but the Last - Answers-Written by F.R Scott.
An epic poem mythologizing the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) as a
'triumph.' It called attention to the 6k+ Chinese labourers that worked in brutal working
conditions as racist immigration policies attempted to legally disenfranchise them
despite being a vital role in the CPR's completion
An example of Canadian Modernisms - Answers-F.R Scott's The Canadian Authors
Meet
A series of critical essays and poems that were significant to Canadian modernism and
contributed to Scott's critique of the Canadian Authors' Association.
Biotexts - Answers-Short autobiographical fragments.
For example: In Diamond Grill, biotexts are used to focus on the poet's upbringing as a
mixed race child that creates a sense of ongoing discovery through the collection.
Call My People Home - Answers-Written by Dorothy Livesay. Written as a rebuttal to
official propaganda that framed Japanese-Canadian internment camps as 'peaceful' and
necessary in their relocation throughout WWII.
Canadian Modernism - Answers-A period of aesthetic innovations / movements that
were driven by the desire to break away from romantic nationalism that was
characterized by the confederation period in Canada.
It rejected Victorian ideas , values, literary conventions yet registered a sense of
uncertainty about the future. It was also used to create works that reflected Canada's
grow and maturity as an independent country.
Chinese Exclusion Act - Answers-1923 - Barred Chinese immigration altogether.
Chinese Immigration Act - Answers-1885 - passed after the CPR to discourage Chinese
immigration into Canada which included a provision that required all Chinese
immigrants to pay a headtax of $50 (which increased to $500) to enter to country
Declension - Answers-The process where standard grammar produces variations on
different parts of speech - for instance, by classifying nouns according to their number
and gender.
, Seen in: M. NourBese Philip's "Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with
the Flying Cheek-bones"
Diamond Grill - Answers-Written by Fred Wah.
Documentary Poem - Answers-A form of poetry in which historical / found materials
such as photos, interviews, newspapers, testimonies, etc, were incorporated into a
writer's thoughts to create a divide between one's subjective thoughts and the objective
truth/facts. It also included lyrical elements to creatively document significant social and
political changes in historic events in history.
An example is: Call My People Home
Ekphrasis - Answers-A literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art.
Seen: In the Skin of a Lion. Used to raise questions about ethics of representing the
scene being viewed. It aestheticizes the workers and works as a commentary on the
representation of these figures
Half-breed politics - Answers-A feature in diasporic writing.
Healing Ceremonies - Answers-Participatory medicine involved in being a witness or
participant in ceremonies, involving the belief in the ceremonial and potentially
medicinal power of performance
Historiographic Metafiction - Answers-Historiographic metafiction was a postmodern
historical novel that was both fictional yet concerned with acts of reading and writing
history as well. It included how fiction and history were equally made by the writer and
linked the novelist and historian on shared elements that included the representation of
the writer's thoughts and feelings.
An example is: In the Skin of a Lion as it disrupts the official history and records of
Toronto and its combined conventions of a realist fiction and postmodern metafiction
that included representations of the novelist and historiographer at work. It also merged
fact and fiction to raise questions about the way the story is narrativized.
In the Skin of a Lion - Answers-Written by Michael Ondaatje. Detailed the history of
Toronto and its immigrant workers who played a large role in the building of the city that
combined conventions of realistic fiction and post-modern metafiction that included
representations of the novelist and historiographer, Patrick lewis. It often used dreams
to foreground its incompleteness through fragmentation.
M. NourBese Philip - Answers-Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with
the Flying Cheek Bones, Discourse on the Logic of Language
