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The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada explores the
exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to
give teachers and students the tools they need to study both
canonical and lesser-known works. The volume introduces important
texts and contexts for interpreting life narratives, demonstrates
the conceptual tools necessary to understand what life narratives
are and how they work, and offers an historical overview of key
moments in Canadian auto/biography. Not sure what life writing in
Canada is, or how to study it? This critical introduction covers
the tools and approaches you require in order to undertake your own
interpretation of life writing texts. You will encounter
nonfictional writing about individual lives and
experiences-including biography, autobiography, letters, diaries,
comics, poetry, plays, and memoirs. The volume includes case
studies to provide examples of how to study and research life
narratives and toolkits to help you apply what you learn. The
Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada provides
instructors and students with the contexts and the critical tools
to discover the power of life writing, and the skills to study any
kind of nonfiction, from Canada and around the world.
Recently, "trans" has taken on a number of important theoretical
and critical meanings inside and outside the academy. As a prefix,
"trans" can attach itself to other words to express or describe
movement and change, as it does in the terms "transnational" or
"transmedia." Trans is also an adjective when it is part of a word
that signifies an identity or expression. Trans has worked as an
adjective to destabilize established ideas about gender as it makes
new senses of what gender can mean for trans people. Much of the
study of life writing is about the study of identity and the
possibilities for lives that stories of identity make possible. In
that spirit, Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational
represents an opportunity for critical work about life writing by
trans people to be featured, as it seeks to interrogate the idea of
trans in multiple registers, bringing a prefix to the center of the
current field of life-writing studies. It aims to understand
through life writing and its theory what trans means when we talk
about identities and bodies, and to understand better what the
critical terms transmedia and transnational can mean for the field
of life writing. The Chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
Recently, "trans" has taken on a number of important theoretical
and critical meanings inside and outside the academy. As a prefix,
"trans" can attach itself to other words to express or describe
movement and change, as it does in the terms "transnational" or
"transmedia." Trans is also an adjective when it is part of a word
that signifies an identity or expression. Trans has worked as an
adjective to destabilize established ideas about gender as it makes
new senses of what gender can mean for trans people. Much of the
study of life writing is about the study of identity and the
possibilities for lives that stories of identity make possible. In
that spirit, Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational
represents an opportunity for critical work about life writing by
trans people to be featured, as it seeks to interrogate the idea of
trans in multiple registers, bringing a prefix to the center of the
current field of life-writing studies. It aims to understand
through life writing and its theory what trans means when we talk
about identities and bodies, and to understand better what the
critical terms transmedia and transnational can mean for the field
of life writing. The Chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada explores the
exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to
give teachers and students the tools they need to study both
canonical and lesser-known works. The volume introduces important
texts and contexts for interpreting life narratives, demonstrates
the conceptual tools necessary to understand what life narratives
are and how they work, and offers an historical overview of key
moments in Canadian auto/biography. Not sure what life writing in
Canada is, or how to study it? This critical introduction covers
the tools and approaches you require in order to undertake your own
interpretation of life writing texts. You will encounter
nonfictional writing about individual lives and
experiences-including biography, autobiography, letters, diaries,
comics, poetry, plays, and memoirs. The volume includes case
studies to provide examples of how to study and research life
narratives and toolkits to help you apply what you learn. The
Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada provides
instructors and students with the contexts and the critical tools
to discover the power of life writing, and the skills to study any
kind of nonfiction, from Canada and around the world.
Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by
celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read
by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion
of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed,
vilified, and dismissed in the popular press. But is there really a
boom in memoir production in the United States? If so, what is
causing it? Are memoirs all written by narcissistic hacks for an
unthinking public, or do they indicate a growing need to understand
world events through personal experiences? This study seeks to
answer these questions by examining memoir as an industrial product
like other products, something that publishers and booksellers help
to create. These popular texts become part of mass culture, where
they are connected to public events. The genre of memoir, and even
genre itself, ceases to be an empty classification category and
becomes part of social action and consumer culture at the same
time. From James Frey's controversial "A Million Little Pieces," to
memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, computer
hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir
boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way
American readers try to understand major events in terms of
individual experiences. The memoir boom is one of the ways that
citizenship as a category of belonging between private and public
spheres is now articulated.
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its
accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere
on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human
achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional
white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the
expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas
and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's
highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself
reached a "false summit" - a peak that proves not to be the
pinnacle - and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other
ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two
centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has
helped shape how the self is understood within the context of
conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs
of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve
and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all.
Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from
Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why
mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate
gender identities and politics.
Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman's
experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and
her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and
stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the
Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes
heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman's movement between worlds
and ways of understanding. It also provides a clear-eyed record of
the changes that swept through Inuit communities in the 1940s and
1950s.Mini Aodla Freeman was born in 1936 on Cape Hope Island in
James Bay. At the age of sixteen, she began nurse's training at
Ste. Therese School in Fort George, Quebec, and in 1957 she moved
to Ottawa to work as a translator for the then Department of
Northern Affairs and Natural Resources. Her memoir, Life Among the
Qallunaat, was published in 1978 and has been translated into
French, German, and Greenlandic. Life Among the Qallunaat is the
third book in the First Voices, First Texts series, which publishes
lost or under appreciated texts by Indigenous writers. This reissue
of Mini Aodla Freeman's path-breaking work includes new material,
an interview with the author, and an afterword by Keavy Martin and
Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning.
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Mini Aodla Freeman; Edited by Julie Rak; As told to Norma Dunning
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Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman's
experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and
her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and
stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the
Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes
heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman's movement between worlds
and ways of understanding. It also provides a clear-eyed record of
the changes that swept through Inuit communities in the 1940s and
1950s. Mini Aodla Freeman was born in 1936 on Cape Hope Island in
James Bay. At the age of sixteen, she began nurse's training at
Ste. Therese School in Fort George, Ontario, and in 1957 she moved
to Ottawa to work as a translator for the then Department of
Northern Affairs and National Resources. Her memoir, Life Among the
Qallunaat, was published in 1978 and has been translated into
French, German, and Greenlandic. Life Among the Qallunaat is the
third book in the First Voices, First Texts series, which publishes
lost or under appreciated texts by Indigenous writers. This reissue
of Mini Aodla Freeman's path-breaking work includes new material,
an interview with the author, and an afterword by Keavy Martin and
Julie Rak.
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its
accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere
on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human
achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional
white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the
expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas
and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's
highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself
reached a "false summit" - a peak that proves not to be the
pinnacle - and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other
ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two
centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has
helped shape how the self is understood within the context of
conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs
of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve
and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all.
Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from
Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why
mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate
gender identities and politics.
The Doukhobors, Russian-speaking immigrants who arrived in Canada
beginning in 1899, are known primarily to the Canadian public
through the sensationalist images of them as nude protestors,
anarchists, and religious fanatics – representations largely
propagated by government commissions and the Canadian media. In
Negotiating Memory, Julie Rak examines the ways in which
autobiographical strategies have been employed by the Doukhobors
themselves in order to retell and reclaim their own history.
Drawing from oral interviews, court documents, government reports,
prison diaries, and media accounts, Rak demonstrates how the
Doukhobors employed both “classic” and alternative forms of
autobiography to communicate their views about communal living,
vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on
traditions to successive generations. More than a historical work,
this book brings together recent theories concerning subjectivity,
autobiography, and identity, and shows how Doukhobor
autobiographical discourse forms a series of ongoing negotiations
for identity and collective survival that are sometimes successful
and sometimes not. An innovative study, Negotiating Memory will
appeal to those interested in autobiography studies as well as to
historians, literary critics, and students and scholars of Canadian
cultural studies.
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