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Publisher:University of Manitoba Press, 1998
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- Author: Keahey, Deborah Lou.Date:Created1998Summary:
Traditional approaches to Prairie literature have focussed on the significance of "the land" in attempts to make a place into a home. This emphasis on the importance of landscape as a defining and guiding feature for writers and their writing ignores the important roles played by influences brought to the land - history, culture, gender, ethnicity, religion, community, family, and occupation. Deborah Keahey considers over seventy years of Canadian Prairie literature, including poetry, autobiography, drama, and fiction, from seventeen writers, ranging from the well-established, like Martha Ostenso and Robert Kroetsch, to newer writers, like Ian Ross and Kelly Rebar.
Contents:- Prologue: Writing Home
- Introduction: Homemaking the Prairies
- 1. Imperial Inscriptions. Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese. Robert J.C. Stead's Grain. Kelly Rebar's Bordertown Cafe. Ian Ross's fare Wel
- 2. Relative Geographies. Kristjana Gunnars's Zero Hour. David Arnason's Marsh Burning. Laura Goodman Salverson's Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
- 3. Centres of Gravity. Frederick Philip Grove's Over Prairie Trails. Lorna Crozier's Inventing the Hawk. Dennis Cooley's this only home
- 4. Displacement and Replacement. Emma Lee Warrior's "Compatriots" Maria Campbell's: Halfbreed. Rudy Wiebe's: Peace Shall Destroy Many. Uma Parameswaran's: Trishanku
- 5. Placing the Self in Motion. Robert Kroetsch's Completed Field Notes.
Subject(s): Canadian literature | Home in literature | Place (Philosophy) in literature | Setting (Literature)Original Publisher: Winnipeg, Man., University of Manitoba PressLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 0887556566, 9780887556562, 9780887553417, 0887553419, 9780887550607
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