Themes in Canadian Literature

1. We are myth destroyers.
2. We are paradoxical – we search for our own identity.
3. We celebrate victims.
4. We celebrate individual suffering – defeated by rebellion.
5. Truly authentic Canadian experience is shrouded in violence and paranoia.
6. External world defines who we are.
7. Fear of America, Europe, “Old World.”
8. Interior Separation
9. Garrison Mentality
10. Exploration and Discovery: Quest
11. Canada is the great asylum for victims the world over.
12. Long periods of death followed by the rush to (re)produce.
13. Authors explore three key relationships to determine who we are:
    1. our relationship with the environment
    2. our relationship with each other
    3. our relationship with the Divine.
14. Societal barriers, systems of all kinds are pulled back to uncover briefly who we are.
15. Immigrants could not control the land or nature – so they controlled the indians.

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