History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies

Calder, Alison; Wardhaugh, Robert (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0887556825 / ISBN 13: 9780887556821

Published by University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887556825
• ISBN 13: 9780887556821
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 1.778W x 15.24H x 22.86D centimeters 1.778 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian History

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Synopsis

The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. In a collection of ten essays, History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures “the prairie” as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents.

These writers explore the connections between document and imagination, between history and culture, and between geography and time.The subjects of the essays range widely: the non-linear structure of Carol Shield’s The Stone Diaries; the impact of Aberhart’s Social Credit, Marshall McLuhan, and Mesopotamian myth on Robert Kroetsch’s prairie postmodernism; the role of document in long prairie poems; the connection between cultural tourism and heritage; the theme of regeneration in Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka writing; the influence of imagination on geography in Thomas Wharton’s Icefields; and the effects on an alpine climber of pre-WWII ideological concepts of time and individualism.

About the Authors

Alison Calder teaches English at the University of Manitoba and is a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for poetry.

Robert Wardhaugh teaches History at the University of Western Ontario, and is the author of MacKenzie King and the Prairie West.