Canada and the idea of north / Sherrill E. Grace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grace, Sherrill, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Canadian.

Canada, Northern.

Canada, Northern--In literature.

Canada, Northern--In art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the north has been central to the Canadian imagination. Sherrill Grace argues that Canadians have always used ideas of Canada-as-North to promote a distinct national identity and national unity. In a penultimate chapter - "The North Writes Back" - Grace presents newly emerging northern voices and shows how they view the long tradition of representing the North by southern activists, artists, and scholars. With the recent creation of Nunavut, increasing concern about northern ecosystems and social challenges, and renewed attention to Canada's role as a circumpolar nation, Canada and the Idea of North shows that nordicity still plays an urgent and central role in Canada at the start of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Colour Plates, Illustrations, and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introducing North

Prologue

Writing the North

Representing North

Constructing a Northern Nation

Articulating North

Visualizing North

Performing North

Narrating a Northern Nation

Fictions of North

The North Writes Back

Writing, Re-Writing, and Writing Back

Epilogue

Notes

An Interdisciplinary Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-331) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85954-4

9786612859540

0-7735-6953-7

OCLC:

76898611