P.C. wrote:
Funny how that works. When you were in America, you were stuck on Canada. Now you're in Canada and you're stuck on America.
Hahahaha
Blame it on the novels I have to read for class. My profs are British and spent their graduate and phd work in America. So the books are between UK and America. Also, I'm being heavily encouraged by people to focus on American lit for future writing ideas. I'll admit that travel writing is fun for me to do, but I rather write a planning book if I got the chance.
The last Canadian literature I read was years ago back in Nanaimo. What I took from it was this story about growing up in Newfoundland that I really connected to, a story story about a father who never left his small town in Quebec who also had a son who travelled the world, but wanted nothing to do with him. Then before the old man died, the son took his father to Quebec City.
Then probably one of the best books I have ever read 'Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?' is a story about Air India and transnational migration of a Punjab community in Vancouver. For obvious reasons I connected with a few of the characters who felt as if they were living in two places.
Oh and Leonard Cohen.
I throughly enjoyed Canadian Lit, but my parents wouldn't be pleased if I had become a Lit major or Film Studies student.
