First published in 1909, "The Foreigner" comes from the pen of
bestselling author Ralph Connor, the pseudonym of Presbyterian
minister and missionary Charles W. Gordon. The novel opens in
Winnipeg, where Kalman Kalmar, a young Eastern European immigrant,
is growing up under the shadow of his father, whose allegiance to
the customs of the Old World has caused him to become a fugitive in
Canada. After a violent encounter with his father's sworn enemy,
the adolescent Kalman is sent to a ranch in rural Saskatchewan,
where, in learning the ways of the land, he must also reconcile the
customs of his ancestors with the possibilities available to him in
the New World. Part adventure story, part allegory for a vision of
a culturally assimilated North West, the story features a form of
male maturation and muscular Christianity recurring in Connor's
popular Western tales. Daniel Coleman's afterword considers the
text's departure from Connor's established fiction formulas and
provides a framework for understanding its depiction of
difference.
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