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Author Besson, Françoise.

Title The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (371 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary This volume engages the reader's interest in the relationship that binds man to nature, a relationship which makes itself manifest through certain literary or visual artefacts produced by Native or non-Native writers and artists. It ranges from the study of literatures (mainly from Canada - including Quebec and Acadia - but also from Britain, the United States of America, France, Turkey, and Australia) to the exploration of films, photographs, paintings and sculptures produced by Aboriginal a ...
Contents pt. 1 Nature and the Memory of the World -- Introduction / Francoise Besson -- ch. One Varieties of Environmental Nostalgia / Scott Slovic -- ch. Two Urban Recesses: Memory, Nature and the City / Tim Youngs -- ch. Three The Town and the Wild / Thomas Wharton -- ch. Four New Land, Ancient Land / Rudy Wiebe -- ch. Five "Curtailed by the Sublime: Canada, Nature, and the Contingences of Beauty" / Aritha van Herk -- ch. Six Imagined Geographies and the Memory of Nature in Three Stories by Alice Munro / Christine Lorre-Johnston -- ch. Seven Quand la nature fait retour: Betsi Larousse de Louis Hamelin et Champagne de Monique Proulx / Sylvie Vignes -- ch. Eight Derriere les embruns, memoire de peine et de misere / Andre Maindron -- ch. Nine Memories of Nature and the Colonization of American First Nations: A Distinct Rendition of Aboriginal Genocides in a Historiographic Quebecois Novel / Julie LeBlanc -- pt. 2 The Nature of Aboriginal Narration.
Introduction / Heliane Ventura -- ch. Ten C'est/ce n'est pas un roman: Kiss of the Fur Queen, de Tomson Highway / Jean-Jacques Lecercle -- ch. Eleven The Poetics of the Kiss and the Forms of Violence in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen / Heliane Ventura -- ch. Twelve Interracial Relations -- (Re)writing the Stereotype in Native and Non-Native Literatures: Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill and Pauline Johnson / Corinne Bigot -- ch. Thirteen Memory and Revenge: The Rational Animal in "A Red Girl's Reasoning" by Pauline Johnson / Heliane Ventura -- ch. Fourteen Nature as Memory and the Needs for Agents of Recall: From Shaman to Curator in Eden Robinson and Jon Whyte / Harry Vandervlist -- ch. Fifteen Real and Mythical Animals in N. Scott Momaday's Work: Who is at the Origin of First Narratives? / Francoise Besson -- ch. Sixteen Alexis Wright's Ode to Aboriginality in Carpentaria / Colette Selles.
pt. 3 The Mediation and Curation of Nature through Visual Arts -- Introduction / Claire Omhovere -- ch. Seventeen D̀ocumenting Disappearance': A Century of Canadian Photography, from William McFarlane Notman to Edward Burtynsky and Douglas Coupland / Claire Omhovere -- ch. Eighteen The Deer Hunters: Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and Randy Redroad's The Doe Boy / Lee Schweninger -- ch. Nineteen Plumes et pinceaux, la representation autochtone dans Shadow Tag de Louise Erdrich / Elizabeth Bouzonviller -- ch. Twenty Telling Stories on Canvas: An Analysis of Norval Morrisseau's Visual Narratives / Carmen Robertson -- ch. Twenty-One La memoire des territoires et les territoires de la memoire dans l'art autochtone contemporain au Canada / Genevieve Chevallier -- ch. Twenty-Two Emily Carr's Controversial Inner Journey: From France to First Nations Totems / Catherine Lanone.
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Subject Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Canadian literature -- Indian authors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Omhovère, Claire.
Ventura, Héliane.
Other Form: Print version: Besson, Françoise. Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443854733
ISBN 9781443861618 (electronic book)
1443861618 (electronic book)