Storied landscapes : ethno-religious identity and the Canadian Prairies / Frances Swyripa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swyripa, Frances, author.

Series:

Studies in immigration and culture ; 5.

Studies in Immigration and Culture, 1914-1459 ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Prairie Provinces--History.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 electronic text (xiii, 296 p. : ill., maps) : digital file.

Place of Publication:

Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Storied Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West. Viewed through the lens of attachment to the soil and specific place, and through the eyes of both the immigrant generation and its descendants, the book compares the settlement experiences of Ukrainians, Mennonites, Icelanders, Doukhobors, Germans, Poles, Romanians, Jews, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes. It reveals how each group's sense of identity was shaped by a complex interplay of physical and emotional ties to land and place, and how that sense of belonging influenced, and was influenced by, relationships not only within the prairies and the Canadian nation state but also with the homeland and its extended diaspora. Through a close study of myths, symbols, commemorative traditions, and landmarks, Storied Landscapes boldly asserts the inseparability of ethnicity and religion both to defining the prairie region and to understanding the Canadian nation-building project.

Contents:

Ethno-religious settlement : the Canadian prairies in context

Possessing the land : the secular, the sacred, and the dead

Founding stoires and founding fathers : beginnings, place, and belonging

Region and nation : situating the prairie experience within national narratives

Outside connections : homelands, diasporas, and the Forty-ninth Parallel

Wheat, dragon ships, and baba : symbols of prairie ethnicity

Returning to the land : commemoration and preservation of the past

Pilgrimage : the land as "sacred ground" and gathering point.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-290) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2017).

ISBN:

1-283-09052-X

9786613090522

0-88755-300-1

OCLC:

1408681479