Recalling early Canada : reading the political in literary and cultural production

Blair, Jennifer, 1975- (Added Author).

Summary: "ReCalling Early Canada is the first book-length collection of essays to focus on Canadian literary and cultural production prior to WWI. While Canadian literature is often thought to have emerged in the mid twentieth century, the essays in this volume reflect a recent critical interest in earlier generations of cultural production." "Taking seriously the project of recall, the essays here not only seek to deliver certain historical documents to the light of present-day critique, they also ask important theoretical and political questions about the various methodologies involved and the assumptions that accompany them."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780888644435 :
ISBN: 0888644434 :
Physical Description: print
xlvi, 412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index. Papers presented at a conference held June 23, 2003 in Hamilton, Ont.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references: p. 335-361.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / Carole Gerson -- Introduction : recalling early Canada : reading the political in literary and cultural production / Jennifer Blair, Daniel Coleman, Kate Higginson and Lorraine York -- 1. Wedding "native" culture to the "modern" state : national culture, selective tradition and the politics of recalling early Canada / Paul Hjartarson -- 2. Feminine vulnerability, (neo)colonial captivities, and rape scares : Theresa Gowanlock, Theresa Delaney and Jessica Lynch / Kate Higginson -- 3. Historiographical revision and colonial agency : Napoleon Bourassa's Jacques et Marie / Andrea Cabajsky -- 4. Romance, pastoral romance, and the nation in history : William Kirby's the golden dog and Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe's Les Anciens Canadiens / Robert David Stacey -- 5. Anthropomorphism and trope in the national ode / Adam Carter -- 6. Letitia Mactavish Hargrave and Hudson's Bay Company domestic politics : negotiating kinship in letters from the Canadian north-west / Kathleen Venema -- 7. The knowledge of "sex" and the lattice of the confessional : the nun's tales and early North American popular discourse / Jennifer Blair -- 8. Writing (Canada) on the body : isolating the gene for "Canadian" in le petit cheval du fer? / Anne Milne -- 9. The expatriate origins of Canadian literature / Nick Mount -- 10. "Baptized with tears and sighs" : Sara Jeannette Duncan and the rhetoric of feminism / Janice Fiamengo -- 11. The search for a livable past : Frye, Crawford, and the healing link / Cecily Devereux -- 12. Colonial phantasms : aboriginality and "the family" in the photographic archive / J. V. Emberley.