White Civility : : The Literary Project of English Canada / / Daniel Coleman.
In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders. He argues that a specific form of whiteness emerged in Canada that was heavily influenced...
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Coleman, Daniel, author. White Civility : The Literary Project of English Canada / Daniel Coleman. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2006 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada -- 2. The Loyalist Brother: Fratricide and Civility in English Canada's Story of Origins -- 3. The Enterprising Scottish Orphan: Inventing the Properties of English Canadian Character -- 4. The Muscular Christian in Fictions of the Canadian West -- 5. The Maturing Colonial Son: Manning the Borders of White Civility -- 6. Wry Civility -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Illustration Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders. He argues that a specific form of whiteness emerged in Canada that was heavily influenced by Britishness. Examining four allegorical figures that recur in a wide range of Canadian writings between 1820 and 1950 - the Loyalist fratricide, the enterprising Scottish orphan, the muscular Christian, and the maturing colonial son - Coleman outlines a genealogy of Canadian whiteness that remains powerfully influential in Canadian thinking to this day. Blending traditional literary analysis with the approaches of cultural studies and critical race theory, White Civility examines canonical literary texts, popular journalism, and mass market bestsellers to trace widespread ideas about Canadian citizenship during the optimistic nation-building years as well as during the years of disillusionment that followed the First World War and the Great Depression. Tracing the consistent project of white civility in Canadian letters, Coleman calls for resistance to this project by transforming whiteness into wry civility, unearthing rather than disavowing the history of racism in Canadian literary culture. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Canadian literature History and criticism. Canadian literature White authors History and criticism. Race relations in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9780802096425 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683358 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442683358.jpg |
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