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Canadian Literature (Hardcover)
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Canadian Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature
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An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing
internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the
context of their national literary history. While the focus of the
book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also
charts the historical development of Canadian literature and
discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The
chapters focus on four central topics in Canadian culture:
Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions;
Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case
studies of five key texts with a broad discussion of concepts and
approaches, including postcolonial and postmodern reading
strategies and theories of space, place and desire. Authors chosen
for close analysis include Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Alice
Munro, Leonard Cohen, Thomas King and Carol Shields. Key Features *
The first critical guide to Canadian literature in English *
Authors selected on the basis of their popularity on undergraduate
courses * Combines historical and thematic approaches to Canadian
writing * Links close reading of key texts with theoretical
approaches to Canadian literature * Discusses in detail Obasan by
Joy Kogawa, Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, The Republic
of Love by Carol Shields, 'Wilderness Tips' and The Journals of
Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood, Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso,
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
and In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
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