Challenging Frontiers

SUBTITLED : ` The Canadian West'. This 375 page volume opens with a discussion of how the word frontier has held different meanings with different users, in different times. INDEX at back. List of the fifteen contributors, with a short bio, at back. They include (in addition to the two editors): Max Foran, Aritha Van Herk, Brian Rusted and Janivce Dickin. Texts assisted by tabular data and a small number of b/w photographs. LEARN more about: Japanese immigration, Reform Party, flat prairie landscape, Dominion Exhibition, country music, striking mine workers, and working cowboy. Cond : Paper wrapper is yellow (,burgundy and black). Rust brown lettering . Buffalo silhouette similar. Square, tight, clean , and bright. No names. Minimal wear. Lots of (student) underlining - especially in the Emma LaRoque piece. Very good reading copy. QUote (p. 147) : " Essentially, a layered but predictable configuration of `cultural difference' has emerged out of this process. Fused together as one are the largely stereotyped notions of Indian culture and `tradition', the ingredient that gives Indian culture authenticity. Apparently - and ._._._. . ".…