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Book: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Survival: A Thematic Guide to

    Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Survival: A Thematic Guide to

    ...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed feelings about that. At one end of the spectrum is Thoreau, wishing to immerse himself in swamps for the positive vibrations; at the other end is Benjamin Franklin, who didn't like Nature. {p.91}
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Survival: A Thematic Guide to

    What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.
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