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Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture

Author : Renée Hulan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773569448
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture written by Renée Hulan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By investigating mutually dependent categories of identity in literature that depicts northern peoples and places, Hulan provides a descriptive account of representative genres in which the north figures as a central theme - including autobiography, adventure narrative, ethnography, fiction, poetry, and travel writing. She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed, indigenous peoples. Reading against the background of contemporary ethnographic, literary, and cultural theory, Hulan maintains that the collective Canadian identity idealized in many works representing the north does not occur naturally but is artificially constructed in terms of characteristics inflected by historically contingent ideas of gender and race, such as self-sufficiency, independence, and endurance, and that these characteristics are evoked to justify the nationhood of the Canadian state.

Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture

Author : Renée Hulan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773522282
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture written by Renée Hulan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture Renée Hulan disputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, she challenges the epistemology used to support this idea. By investigating mutually dependent categories of identity in literature that depicts northern peoples and places, Hulan provides a descriptive account of representative genres in which the north figures as a central theme - including autobiography, adventure narrative, ethnography, fiction, poetry, and travel writing. She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed, indigenous peoples. Reading against the background of contemporary ethnographic, literary, and cultural theory, Hulan maintains that the collective Canadian identity idealized in many works representing the north does not occur naturally but is artificially constructed in terms of characteristics inflected by historically contingent ideas of gender and race, such as self-sufficiency, independence, and endurance, and that these characteristics are evoked to justify the nationhood of the Canadian state.

Shared Waters

Author : Stella Borg Barthet
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027665
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Shared Waters written by Stella Borg Barthet and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women's writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by the following authors and filmmakers: Thea Astley, George Elliott Clarke, Alan Duff, Francis Ebejer, Lorena Gale, Romesh Gunesekera, Sahar Khalīfah, Anthony Minghella, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, Salman Rushdie, Ghādah al-Sammān, Meera Syal, Lee Tamahori. Contributors: Leila Abouzeid, Hoda Barakat, Amrit Biswas, Thomas Bonnici, Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus, Devon Campbell-Hall, Saviour Catania, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Crow, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Bärbel Czennia, Hilary P. Dannenberg, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Bernadette Falzon, Daphne Grace, Adrian Grima, Kifah Hanna, Janne Korkka, T. Vijay Kumar, Chantal Kwast-Greff, Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo, Kevin Stephen Magri, Isabel Moutinho, Melanie A. Murray, Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Gerhard Stilz, Jesús Varela Zapata, Christine Vogt-William.

Climate, Culture, Change

Author : Timothy B. Leduc
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 077661939X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Climate, Culture, Change written by Timothy B. Leduc and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate change. What he learns is that today’s climate changes are not only affecting our environments, but also our cultures. By focusing on the changes currently occurring in the north, he highlights the challenges being posed to Western climate research, Canadian politics and traditional Inuit knowledge. Climate, Culture, Change sheds light on the cultural challenges posed by northern warming and proposes an intercultural response that is demonstrated by the blending of Inuit and Western perspectives.

Introduction to Indigenous Literary Criticism in Canada

Author : Heather Macfarlane
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155481183X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Indigenous Literary Criticism in Canada written by Heather Macfarlane and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Indigenous Literary Criticism in Canada collects 26 seminal critical essays indispensable to our understanding of the rapidly growing field of Indigenous literatures. The texts gathered in this collection, selected after extensive consultation with experts in the field, trace the development of Indigenous literatures while highlighting major trends and themes, including appropriation, stereotyping, language, land, spirituality, orality, colonialism, residential schools, reconciliation, gender, resistance, and ethical scholarship.

Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic

Author : Renée Hulan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319693298
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic written by Renée Hulan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture. Analysis of the changing rhetoric surrounding the discovery of the lost ships of the Franklin expedition serves to highlight the political and economic interests that have historically motivated Canada’s approach to the Arctic and shaped literary representations. A recent shift in Canadian writing away from national sovereignty to circumpolar stewardship is revealed in detailed close readings of Kathleen Winter’s Boundless and Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold.

International Disputes and Cultural Ideas in the Canadian Arctic

Author : Danita Catherine Burke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319619179
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book International Disputes and Cultural Ideas in the Canadian Arctic written by Danita Catherine Burke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Canadian relationship with its portion of the Arctic region which revolves around the dramatic split between the appearance of absent-minded governance, bordering on indifference toward the region, and the raging nationalism during moments of actual and perceived challenge toward the sovereignty of the imagined “Canadian Arctic region.” Canada’s nationalistic relationship with the Arctic region is often discussed as a reactionary phenomenon to the Americanization of Canada and the product of government propaganda. As this book illustrates, however, the complexity and evolution of the Canadian relationship with the Arctic region and its implication for Canada’s approach toward international relations requires a more in-depth exploration Please be aware than an error has been noted for Table 1.1 on page 71. In this table the sub-category “Inuit” is mislabelled. It should read “Native Indians and Inuit” as the data presented represents this Canadian census sub-category which calculated all indigenous peoples and Inuit peoples together.

Writing the Northland

Author : Barbara Stefanie Giehmann
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN 13 : 3826044592
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Northland written by Barbara Stefanie Giehmann and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 2011 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walking a Tightrope

Author : Ute Lischke
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889209286
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking a Tightrope by : Ute Lischke

Download or read book Walking a Tightrope written by Ute Lischke and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most we can hope for is that we are paraphrased correctly." In this statement, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias underscores one of the main issues in the representation of Aboriginal peoples by non-Aboriginals. Non-Aboriginal people often fail to understand the sheer diversity, multiplicity, and shifting identities of Aboriginal people. As a result, Aboriginal people are often taken out of their own contexts. Walking a Tightrope plays an important role in the dynamic historical process of ongoing change in the representation of Aboriginal peoples. It locates and examines the multiplicity and distinctiveness of Aboriginal voices and their representations, both as they portray themselves and as others have characterized them. In addition to exploring perspectives and approaches to the representation of Aboriginal peoples, it also looks at Native notions of time (history), land, cultures, identities, and literacies. Until these are understood by non-Aboriginals, Aboriginal people will continue to be misrepresented -- both as individuals and as groups.; By acknowledging the complex and unique legal and historical status of Aboriginal peoples, we can begin to understand the culture of Native peoples in North America. Until then, given the strength of stereotypes, Native people have come to expect no better representation than a paraphrase.

The People of Denendeh

Author : June Helm
Publisher : McGill Queens University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773521469
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The People of Denendeh written by June Helm and published by McGill Queens University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth exploration of the lives and culture of the Dene.

Collections and Objections

Author : Michelle A. Hamilton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773537546
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Collections and Objections by : Michelle A. Hamilton

Download or read book Collections and Objections written by Michelle A. Hamilton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nuanced study of conflicts over possession of Aboriginal artifacts.

Something New in the Air

Author : Lorna Roth
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773528567
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (285 download)

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Book Synopsis Something New in the Air by : Lorna Roth

Download or read book Something New in the Air written by Lorna Roth and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of the pioneering efforts of Television Northern Canada and APTN.

From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite

Author : Marybelle Mitchell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773513747
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite written by Marybelle Mitchell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite traces the development of class relations and collective identity among Canadian Inuit over several centuries of contact with Western capitalism. Marybelle Mitchell provides a complete history of Inuit-white relations, starting with the first contact with European explorers in the sixteenth century and ending with ratification of the Nunavut proposal to create an Inuit homeland through division of the Northwest Territories.

University of Toronto Quarterly

Author : University of Toronto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book University of Toronto Quarterly written by University of Toronto and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inuit Shamanism and Christianity

Author : Frédéric B. Laugrand
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576363
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Inuit Shamanism and Christianity by : Frédéric B. Laugrand

Download or read book Inuit Shamanism and Christianity written by Frédéric B. Laugrand and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a past identified with traditional culture and a present involving Christianity obscures the continuity and dynamics of Inuit society, which has long borrowed and adapted "outside" elements. They argue that both Shamanism and Christianity are continually changing in the Arctic and ideas of transformation and transition are necessary to understand both how the ideology of a hunting society shaped Inuit Christian cosmology and how Christianity changed Inuit shamanic traditions.

Canadian Historical Writing

Author : R. Hulan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137398892
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Historical Writing written by R. Hulan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Historical Writing presents an archaeology of contemporary Canadian historical writing within the theory and practice of historiography. Drawing on international debates within the fields of literary studies and history, the book focuses on the roles played by time, evidence, and interpretation in defining the historical.

Bounty and Benevolence

Author : Arthur J. Ray
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773520608
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Bounty and Benevolence written by Arthur J. Ray and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bounty and Benevolence draws on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements. The authors explain the changing economic and political realities of western Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and show how the Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing diplomatic and economic understandings between First Nations and the Hudson's Bay Company. Bounty and Benevolence also illustrates how these same forces created some of the misunderstandings and disputes that arose between the First Nations and government officials regarding the interpretation and implementation of the accords.