Literature in Canada
Bett Grubisic
Term 1
TTh, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
“Youth and Consequences”
This section of ENGL 222 will focus on a variety of fictional works that have a core Bildungsroman (coming-of-age) element.
The overall selection will feature examples from contemporary (rather than historical) Canadian literature, but will rely on one canonical work of fiction—Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women—as a kind of literary guidepost. (Read it? An option that’s recommended.)
While final course texts will be posted in early summer, fiction currently under consideration includes Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty, Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen, Carrianne Leung’s That Time I Loved You, and George Elliott Clarke’s George and Ru.
Per television and video games, a mature content warning: the books contain sexuality, violence, and sexual violence.
