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Canadian StudiesJanuary 1996
Print ISBN: 9781551300900
Overview
The surest way to the hearts of a Canadian audience is to inform them that their souls are to be identified with rock, rapids, wilderness, and virgin (but exploitable) forest. This critical statement no longer explains Canada's largely urban culture. Multiculturalism, feminism, postmodernism, and regionalism—these and other vital movements jostle for expression in today's Canada. Wherever there's a centre, a new margin vies for attention. Whenever a new voice catches the country's ear, another appears to challenge it. However styles form, new ways of expression keep shaping themselves. Nation without a narrative? Yes. But in the music, literature, painting, history and popular culture of this country, you can always find a soul.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: MARGINS AND CENTRES
From "Conclusion"
The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History
Harold A. Innis
Cornelius Krieghoff: 1845-1865
Dennis Reid
Hollywood's Canada: The Americanization of Our National Image
Pierre Berton
"Many Tender Ties": Women in Fur-Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1870
Sylvia Van Kirk
The Canadian Postmodern
Linda Hutcheon
By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women
Maria Tippett
PART TWO: THE NORTH
The True North Strong and Free
Carl Berger
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Robert Service
The Logic of Ecstacy: Canadian Mystical Painting 1920-1940
Ann Davis
Snow
Frederick Philip Grove
Mon Pays
Gilles Vigneault
Snowbird
Gene MacLellan (sung by Anne Murray)
The Idea of North
Otto Friedrich
PART THREE: TWO SOLITUDES
Two Solitudes
Hugh MacLennan
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
Marie-Claire Blais
Third Solitudes: Tradition and Discontinuity in Jewish-Canadian Literature
Michael Greenstein
The Imaginary Indian: The Image of Indian in Canadian Culture
Daniel Francis
PART FOUR: NATIONALISM
Canada
Sir Adolphe Basile Routhier & Robert Stanley Weir
Towards the Last Spike
E.J. Pratt
Nationalism in Canadian Literature
Frank Watt
Home Truths: An Introduction
Mavis Gallant
Creed
F.R. Scott
El Greco: Espolio
Earle Birney
Male Rage Poem
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
PART SIX: REGIONALISM
Newfoundland
E.J. Pratt
High Realism in Canada: Alex Colville
Paul Duval
A Boy's Prairie
W.O. Mitchell
Sarah Binks
Paul Hiebert
Montreal
A.M. Klein
Things Made by Inuit
Marybelle Myers
PART SEVEN: BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
My Financial Career
Stephen Leacock
Six Journey: A Canadian Pattern
Charles Taylor
Lament for the Dorsets
A.W. Purdy
The Animals in That Country
Margaret Atwood
Foxes
Timothy Findley
The Twelve Days of Christmas
"Bob & Doug MacKenzie"
PART EIGHT: MULTICULTURALISM
Obasan
Joy Kogawa
Kurelek's Vision of Canada
Joan Murray
Harriet's Daughter
Marlene Nourbese Philip
The Blacks in New Brunswick
W.A. Spray
PART NINE: IDEOLOGY IN CULTURE
Canada's Flag
John Ross Matheson
