Immigrant commnities in Canada

18 Outubro 2017, 10:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Students presented the history of the Chinese and Japanese emigration to Canada and discussed the extracts from Fred Wah's Diamond Grill and Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms in this light. 
Asked students to watch the video "1966 Codfishing on the Santa Maria" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Git-48_CPww and to read Anthony da Sá 2 short stories "Fado" and "Pounding their Shadows" for next class in preperation for next class's discussion on the Portuguese in Canada. The short stories (as well as all the extra literary texts) are in the Red Copy Shop. 


Teixeira, Carlos; Da Rosa, Victor M. P. (2009), The Portuguese in Canada: diasporic challenges and adjustments, University of Toronto Press available on JSTOR is a good academic reference on this subject