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CanLit-5. Post-Maple Literature: Queer, Bold, and Beautifully Unbothered

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Gender, identity, mental health, and everything the old CanLit canon politely ignored. By ABS, who believes the future of literature belongs to those who never asked permission to speak. Let’s be honest. Canadian literature used to be like a well-behaved dinner guest—clean shoes, decent opinions, and a tendency to whisper. But lately, it’s been showing […]

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CanLit-4. Immigrant Ink and Urban Angst: Canada Writes Itself a New Face

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From Mistry to Martel, multiculturalism met narrative—and everything got delightfully complicated. By ABS, who believes that literary diversity is Canada’s quiet superpower (along with passive-aggressive weather). If the previous phase of CanLit was all about literary superstars and dystopian disasters, this one is about something quieter but more radical: the changing face of the narrator.

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CanLit-3. The Atwood Apocalypse and the Rise of the Global Canadian

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Welcome to the age of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and a literary passport that finally got stamped. By ABS, who believes that Canadian fiction became globally relevant the moment it stopped apologizing in every sentence. It finally happened. Canada got loud. Well, not American loud. But definitely loud enough for the world to

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CanLit-2 Of Beavers, Bibles, and Broken Identities: Voices Before the Apology

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Indigenous resistance, French-English tug-of-war, and the awkward teenage years of Canadian storytelling. By ABS, who believes that literature is the only polite place where Canada actually argues with itself. If Canadian literature were a person, this is the phase where it’d slam the bedroom door, declare it doesn’t want to be British or American, and

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CanLit 1 Frozen Quills and Colonial Chills: The (Reluctant) Birth of Canadian Literature

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Before Atwood, before Munro, there were logs, loneliness, and literary frostbite. By ABS, who believes the maple leaf wasn’t the first thing Canadians pressed into books—melancholy got there first. Picture this: an icy wilderness, an unforgiving climate, and a group of fur-clad settlers too cold to write and too polite to complain. Welcome to the

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The Canadian Literature in English “Between the Snowbanks and the Subtext—The Maple-Syruped Angst of a Nation Still Editing Itself.” 🍁 Polite Prose and Existential Frostbite Canadian literature didn’t burst into being with fireworks or revolutions—it quietly emerged from under a snowdrift, cleared its throat, and offered you a cup of tea. If American literature is

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