| Examing Black Canadian literature and Asian Canadian literature, with an emphasis on their contemporary (post-1970) development. Considers the two traditions within their distinct or entangled literary contexts as well as historical conditions like slavery, indentured labour for the Canadian Pacific Railway, the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, the destruction of Africville in Halifax, the 1988 Multiculturalism Act, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Gain an understanding of how the traditions intersect and diverge on key terms like diaspora, race, settler, the land, and the nation. Authors may include Dianne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Larissa Lai, Suzette Mayr, Shami Mootoo, Michael Ondaatje, Soraya Peerbaye, M. NourbeSe Philip, Mary Ann Shadd, Rita Wong, and Fred Wah. |
