History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies

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2005

ISBN-13: 9780887553240

<p>The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. In a collection of ten essays, <em>History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies</em> explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures “the prairie” as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents.</p>

<p>These writers explore the connections between document and imagination, between history and culture, and between geography and time.The subjects of the essays range widely: the non-linear structure of Carol Shield’s <em>The Stone Diaries</em>; the impact of Aberhart’s Social Credit, Marshall McLuhan, and Mesopotamian myth on Robert Kroetsch’s prairie postmodernism; the role of document in long prairie poems; the connection between cultural tourism and heritage; the theme of regeneration in Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka writing; the influence of imagination on geography in Thomas Wharton’s Icefields; and the effects on an alpine climber of pre-WWII ideological concepts of time and individualism.</p>