Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian CultureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2002 - 245 páginas 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. |
Índice
Ethnography | 29 |
Inuit Revision | 60 |
From Adventure to Mastery | 98 |
Reimagining | 138 |
Unsettling the Northern Nation | 179 |
Notes | 189 |
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aboriginal adventure stories Al Purdy American anthropological Arctic argues Aritha van Herk authentic autobiography becomes Boas boys Canada Canadian literary Canadian literature Canadian north Canadian Poetry claim construction contemporary conventions creates critique defined depicted describes Diamond Jenness difference discourse Discovery of Strangers Dreams Eskimo ethnographic ethnographic authority ethnographic realism exploration Farley Mowat feminine feminist feminized fiction fieldwork Franklin frontier gender genre Greenstockings Grey Owl hero hunting Idea of North ideas imagined Indian initiation Innu Inuit culture Inuit literature Inuit women Inuit writers Jenness Jenness's Kroetsch land landscape literary criticism male masculine identity myth narrator national identity Native nature non-Inuit northern experience novel observes passage poems poetry poets political postmodern postmodernist Purdy Purdy's quest race racial relationship representation represented role Romantic Romantic Nationalism Rudy Wiebe rugged individual Sherrill social storyteller subject culture survival tion Toronto traditional travel writing voice Wiebe Wiebe's wilderness woman
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