@mattyglesias There's a not-very-good Hugh Garner novel called Cabbagetown about neighborhood when it was poor. A shaky pillar of CanLit.
@mvsyyz Read the collected essays of John Metcalf. he goes into this in some depth.
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@HeerJeet will look for that. I remember "Canlit before WWII" (not sure of exact course title) being a real slog. -
@mvsyyz Look for Metcalf's essay "The New Ancestors" in his book Freedom From Culture. Very good on badness of early CanLit. - Show replies
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