The homing place : Indigenous and settler literary legacies of the Atlantic

Bryant, Rachel (author.). Reder, Deanna, 1963- (series editor.).

Summary: Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty-first century?

Record details

ISBN: 9781771122870 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : The homing place -- Cultural iconoclasm : John Gyles's Atlantic Canadian captivity narrative -- Canadian exceptionalism : finding Anna Brownell Jameson in an Anglo-Atlantic world -- Imaginary lines : cultural storytelling in Peskotomuhkatik -- Making words walk : Joséphine Bacon's poetic Tshissinuatshitakana -- Rita Joe's Wigwam on a hill : reading and writing in the contact zone -- Cartographic dissonance : between narrative geographies in Douglas Glover's Elle -- Conclusion : reforming northeastern literary relations.