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This Seminar explores domestic spaces in an array of Canadian women writers’ short fiction as well as in two novels. We will investigate gender patterns in the domestic sphere, look at how quotidian practices and household objects shape the self as well as relations between people and people and objects. We will start out with two theoretical texts, one a classic from the field of material culture studies by the Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “People and Things” from The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self, the other a classic of phenomenology and spatial theory by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard from his book The Poetics of Space. These theories will then be applied to the analysis of various short stories and to two novels, Joan Barfoot’s Dancing in the Dark and Lorna Crozier’s The Book of Marvels. The two novels have to be bought, all other texts will be provided on Moodle.
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