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Wayde Compton Clip 1
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Space, Instability, Maps, Surtsey
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Date
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2018-01-23
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This clip starts with a discussion of Compton's book The Outer Harbour. More specifically, the idea of imagining Canadian spaces being in flux and how Compton’s imagining of spaces is connected to his personal history.
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Wayde Compton Clip 2
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Government, Land, Law, Power, Language, Power, Ecosystems, Colonialism, Instability, Construction
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Date
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2018-01-28
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This second clip starts by discussing the instability of space and land. The conversation then shifts to discuss the different forms of discourse used to describe particular spaces, and the implications of such language use.
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Wayde Compton Clip 3
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Ecosystem, Land, Law, Power, Language
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Date
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2018-01-23
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This section of the interview starts by discussing the way Compton integrates multiple genres into his works. The conversation then ties in the topic of genre theory with a discussion of discourse and language use.
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Wayde Compton Clip 4
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Advertisement, Language, Power, Manipulation, Government
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Date
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2018-01-23
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In this final clip of the interview, Compton discusses the nature of the conclusion to The Outer Harbour. It then shifts to a discussion of land claims and diasporic and Indigenous politics, and the experience of writing within such a political landscape.
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Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
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Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
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Date
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2018-01-23
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Wayde Compton reads a scene from his short story "The Lost Island." In this scene, the characters Jean and Fletcher consider the newly emerged volcanic island off Vancouver's coast and Fletcher proposes they go to the island as an act of anti-colonisation. This story appears in Compton's 2014 book of interconnected short stories The Outer Harbour.