Inheriting a Canoe Paddle : : The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism /

Inheriting a Canoe Paddle : : The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism / / Misao Dean.

If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification's unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with...

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Dean, Misao,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2012
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cultural Spaces
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Inheriting a Canoe Paddle
  • 1. Inheriting a Literary Tradition: Paddling the Uncanny Canoe
  • 2. Inheriting a Historiographic Tradition: Canada Is a Canoe Route
  • 3. 'The Anglo-Saxon idea of pleasure': Eric Morse and Recreational Wilderness Canoeing
  • 4. The Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant as Historical Re-enactment
  • 5. Reading/Writing the Wilderness Canoe Trip
  • 6. Return to Eden: Bill Mason, Canoeing, and Environmentalism
  • 7. Recapitulation: The Canadian Canoe Museum
  • 8. Decolonizing the Canoe
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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