ReReading Catharine Parr Traill : Stranging the Familiar / Dorothy Lander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lander, Dorothy, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life.

Intercultural communication.

Mental healing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clydesdale, Nova Scotia : HARP Publishing: The People's Press, [2022]

Summary:

ReReading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar is a decolonizing memoir and a Truth and Reconciliation project, building on the life jolt Dorothy experienced on re-reading CPT's 1852 children's story Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains during the pandemic lockdown. Sixty-five years after last hearing her father read it aloud over several successive Sundays, Dorothy owns the "truth" of her unaware complicity in Canada's colonization project. She exposes the colonizer messages in Canadian Crusoes--messages that support white supremacy and the Doctrine of Discovery, which must have been "read" into her very cells as a child. Dorothy faces up to the contradictions that her revered "floral godmother" represents.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title

Copyright

Foreword

Artist’s Statement

Acknowledgements: The Last Chapter

Re-Reading Catharine Parr Traill: Stranging the Familiar

Totem Responses to Re-Reading Catherine Parr Traill

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lander, Dorothy ReReading Catharine Parr Traill

ISBN:

1-990137-36-9