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Catching the Torch - Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I (Paperback)
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Catching the Torch - Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I (Paperback)
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Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written
about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works
as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack
Hodgins's Broken Ground, Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918), Stephen
Massicotte's Mary's Wedding, and Frances Itani's Deafening, the
book considers how writers have dealt with the compelling myth that
the Canadian nation was born in the trenches of the Great War.In
contrast to British and European remembrances of WWI, which tend to
regard it as a cataclysmic destroyer of innocence, or Australian
myths that promote an ideal of outsize masculinity, physical
bravery, and white superiority, contemporary Canadian texts conjure
up notions of distinctively Canadian values: tolerance of ethnic
difference, the ability to do one's duty without complaint or
arrogance, and the inclination to show moral as well as physical
courage. Paradoxically, Canadians are shown to decry the horrors of
war while making use of its productive cultural effects. Through a
close analysis of the way sacrifice, service, and the commemoration
of war are represented in these literary works, Catching the Torch
argues that iterations of a secure mythic notion of national
identity, one that is articulated via the representation of
straightforward civic and military participation, work to counter
current anxieties about the stability of the nation-state, in
particular anxieties about the failure of the ideal of a national
""character.
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