UID:
almafu_9959238800002883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) :
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digital file.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4426-9144-1
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1-4426-8404-6
Uniform Title:
Association of Canadian University Presses collection
Content:
"In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. Before the Country explores the extent to which this body of literature exposed the fallacies of one specific story, or non-Native national myth, that had been developed at an early date in Canada." "In the context of Northrop Frye's theories of myth, and in light of the attempts of social critics and early anthologists to define Canada and Canadian literature, Stephanie McKenzie suggests ways in which stories react to one another. She examines anew the aesthetics of Native literature and, in a style that is as creative as it is scholarly, incorporates the principles of storytelling into the unfolding of her argument. This strategy not only enlivens her narrative, but also underscores the need for new theoretical strategies in the criticism of Aboriginal literatures. Before the Country invites us to engage in one such endeavour."--Jacket.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Headwaters of Design -- 2 The Seventh Generation -- 3 Native Literature of the 1960s and 1970s in Canada -- 4 Day of Atonement -- 5 Searching for Sun-Gods: Robert Kroestch�s Badlands and Sky Lee�s Disappearing Moon Cafe -- 6 Admitting the Possibility of Transitional Texts in Canadian Literature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Permissions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S
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Tu -- v -- w -- y -- z
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-9446-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-9208-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442684041
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