Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture - Volume 29

An in-depth examination of the ethnographic content and impact of literary representations of "Canada as North." Renee Hulan disputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, she challenges the epistemology used to support this idea. By investigating mutually dependent categories of identity in literature that depicts northern peoples and places, Hulan provides a descriptive account of representative genres in which the north figures as a central theme--including autobiography, adventure narrative, ethnography, fiction, poetry, and travel writing. She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed, indigenous peoples.

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Renée Hulan

Summary

Disputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, this title challenges the epistemology used to support this idea.

Product details

• Authors: Renee Hulan, Renée Hulan
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2003
• EAN: 9780773522282
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-2228-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series; McGill-Queen's Native and Nort; McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series; McGill-Queen's Indigenous and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)