English

ENGL6689Writing as Resistance: Canadian Literatures and the Politics of Anti-Oppression3 ch
This course is designed to introduce students to the politics and practices of anti-oppression through the analysis of contemporary Canadian literatures of resistance. The central question we aim to investigate is: how do BIPOC authors in Canada use their work as a way of resisting racism, colonialism, classism, sexism, homophobia, and other intersecting oppressions? Foregrounding critical and creative work by primarily BIPOC writers and scholars, we will
explore the contexts of literary production and the writers’ positionalities, while examining how these writers use personal histories and alternative epistemologies to re-write dominant narratives. We will also map the ways in which these writers unsettle formal traditions through innovative and experimental modes in order to disrupt the language of oppression. Must be a graduate student in English