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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Canadian Fiction"”.
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Work, class and gender in Canadian fiction, 1890s-1920s
… of working women in popular English-Canadian novels from the 1890s to the 1920s. Drawing upon sociohistorical contexts, this study examines the oft-neglected theme of women's work in Canadian literature. Through sustained, comparative analysis of a sample of popular fiction from this …
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Creative Spatializations: New Cartographies in Contemporary Black Canadian Fiction
… explores the ways in which contemporary black Canadian novels rewrite national space by integrating into it what might be called past and present black spatialities. Regardless of its official policy of multiculturalism, Canada appears unable to reflect the diversity of its population, one of …
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The Virus in the Garrison: Contagious Disease in Canadian Fiction
This dissertation analyzes Canadian representations of contagious disease in novels written after the emergence of HIV/AIDS. Ultimately, I argue that contagion in literature registers distinctive fears about the fluid and changeable nature of Canadian communities in an increasingly globalized …
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Transnational Space and the Discourse of Multiculturalism: Contemporary Canadian Fiction
… as “process” in four contemporary English-Canadian novels. The novels under discussion are: Cereus Blooms at Night, by Shani Mootoo; Life of Pi, by Yann Martell; Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels; and Childhood, by Andre Alexis. It offers a transnational model of analysis in relation to …
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An examination of voice in contemporary Canadian fiction and Ballistics : a novel
… is used in the discussion of contemporary fiction – as it frequently is – its meaning is taken to be understood intuitively, and more often than not no further elaboration is either required or offered. In these essays – augmented by my novel, Ballistics, which has more than once been …
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Subjectivity and Embodied Experiences of Time in Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction and Film
… close readings of four literary and filmic Canadian works--Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost (2000), Dionne Brand's short-story collection Sans Souci and Other Stories (1983), Jeff Lemire's graphic narrative Essex County (2009), and David Cronenberg's film Spider (2002)-- to demonstrate …
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The importance of rootedness in the contemporary canadian novel
… of the importance of rootedness in contemporary Canadian fiction, both English and French. The rootedness discussed here is to be understood in the deepest, most fundamental sense of the word, which includes the traditional meaning: origination from the soil of a country and love of that country …
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Fact or fiction : L'Histoire du Canada and its influence on French Canadian novels
… Report (1839) in which Durham stated that French Canadians were a people without a history or a literature. The popularity and success of Garneau's narrative led to his being coined "historien national" and to the emergence of nationalist literature in French Canada. His text provided novelists …
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Playing "Carrot and Stick" : Canadian press coverage of Nigeria on the hanging of nine Ogoni rights activists, November-December 1995
… based on the study of the contents of three Canadian daily papers--the Globe & Mail, the Ottawa Citizen and Le Devoir. Employing cultural-critical discourse analysis, the research found that (i) the Canadian news dislocated the Nigerian story from its native moorings and employed …
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian
… literatures. The Scotiabank Giller Prize is a Canadian instance of the economy of prestige, and, as the dissertation argues, an institution that exercises broad cultural influence. This study is the first sustained effort to gauge this influence and grapple with its implications for the Giller …
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Dames of Distress: Female Violence and Revised Socio-Cultural Discourses in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… the figure of the violent woman in Atwood’s fiction as a productive starting point for the re-evaluation of various socio-cultural debates. Emerging from Atwood’s conviction that art, in its various forms, is often involved in the re-writing of convention, I begin by re-defining traditional …