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"Material Cultures in Canada" presents the vibrant and diverse
field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic,
and political contexts today. The first of its kind, this
collection features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada,
each of whom examines a different object of study, including the
beaver, geraniums, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human
body.
The book's three sections focus, in turn, on objects that are
persistently material, on things whose materiality blends into the
immaterial, and on the materials of spaces. Contributors highlight
some of the most exciting new developments in the field, such as
the emergence of "new materialism," affect theory, globalization
studies, and environmental criticism. Although the book has a
Canadian centre, the majority of its contributors consider objects
that cross borders or otherwise resist national affiliation.
This collection will be valuable to readers within and outside
of Canada who are interested in material culture studies and, in
addition, will appeal to anyone interested in the central debates
taking place in Canadian political and cultural life today, such as
climate change, citizenship, shifts in urban and small-town life,
and the persistence of imperialism.
ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of
essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural
works prior to WWI. Reflecting an emerging critical interest in the
literary past, the authors seek to retrieve the early repertoire
available to Canadian readers-fiction and poetry certainly, but
family letters, photographs, journalism, and captivity narratives
are also investigated. Filling a significant gap in Canadian
criticism, the authors demonstrate that to recall the past is not
only to shape it, but also to reshape the present. This fresh
interest in the cultural past, informed by new approaches to
historical inquiry, has resulted in a unique and diverse
investigation of more than two centuries of a little known "early
Canada."
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