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1 online resource (viii, 368 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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DesLibris. Books collection.
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| Note |
Chiefly based on papers first presented at the Is Canada Postcolonial? conference, organized at the University of Manitoba, 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Is Canada Postcolonial63; Introducing the Question -- PART 1 58; Questioning Canadian Postcolonialism -- What Was Canada63; -- What Resides in the Question44; 8Is Canada Postcolonial63;8221; -- Canada and Postcolonialism58; Questions44; Inventories44; and Futures -- Looking Elsewhere for Answers to the Postcolonial Question58; From Literary Studies to State Policy in Canada -- PART 2 58; Postcolonial Methodologies -- The Absence of Seaming44; Or How I Almost Despair of Dancing58; How Postcolonial Are Canada8217;s Literary Institutions and Critical Practices63; -- Native Writing44; Academic Theory58; Post45;colonialism across the Cultural Divide -- Nostalgic Narratives and the Otherness Industry -- Cool Dots and a Hybrid Scarborough58; Multiculturalism as Canadian Myth -- PART 3 58; Is Canadian Literature Postcolonial63; -- Imagining Eighteenth45;Century Quebec58; British Literature and Colonial Rhetoric -- 8I too am a Canadian8221;58; John Richardson8217;s The Canadian Brothers as Postcolonial Narrative -- Are We There Yet63; Reading the 8Post45;Colonial8221; and The Imperialist in Canada -- Figures of Collection and 40;Post41;Colonial Processes in Major John Richardson8217;s Wacousta and Thomas King8217;s Truth and Bright Water -- Stolen Life63; Reading through Two I8217;s in Postcolonial Collaborative Autobiography -- 8A Place to Stand On8221;58; 40;Post41;colonial Identity in The Diviners and 8The Rain Child8221; -- A 8Place8221; Through Language58; Postcolonial Implications of Mennonite47;s Writing in Western Canada -- What8217;s Immigration Got to Do with It63; Postcolonialism and Shifting Notions of Exile in Nino Ricci8217;s Italian45;Canadians -- Religion44; Postcolonial Side45;by45;sidedness44; and la transculture -- After Postcolonialism58; Migrant Lines and the Politics of Form in Fred Wah44; M46; Nourbese Philip44; and Roy Miki -- PART 4 58; Meditations on the Question -- Is Canada a Postcolonial Country63; -- Answering the Questions -- Answering the Answers44; Asking More Questions -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Last Page. |
| Summary |
Although Canada is often differentiated from other postcolonial countries as an "invader-settler" nation, Moss (English, U. of British Columbia, Canada) suggests that there are important benefits to thinking about Canadian writing as postcolonial, perhaps most notably to First Nations (American Indian) literature. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Canadian fiction -- History and criticism.
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Canadian fiction. |
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Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Canadian fiction -- History and criticism. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Moss, Laura F. E. (Laura Frances Errington), 1969-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Is Canada postcolonial?. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)52039378 |
| ISBN |
9780889206731 (electronic book) |
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0889206732 (electronic book) |
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0889204160 |
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9780889204164 |
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1280925698 |
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9781280925696 |
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DESLIB_CEL |
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