Canadian literary production blossomed in the second half of the 20th century, at a time when Canadians where searching for an independent national identity. The course will examine samples of the literary production of this period, in relation to their historical and socio/political contexts.
TEXTS will include work by Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Laurence, Michael Ondaatje
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: midterm exam or paper, final exam

TEXTS: (subject to revision)
Margaret Atwood: Surfacing; from Bluebeard’s Egg; from Survival; from Good Bones
Margaret Laurence: A Bird in the House; from The Heart of a Stranger
Mavis Galant: selected Stories
Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women; from Selected Stories