Where are the voices coming from? : : Canadian culture and the legacies of history /

Where are the voices coming from? : : Canadian culture and the legacies of history / / edited by Coral Ann Howells.

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This collection of essays focuses on Canadian history and its legacies as represented in novels and films in English and French, produced in Canada mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. The approach is both cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, aiming at articulating Canadian differences through a comparis...

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Superior document:Cross/cultures ; 73
:
Coral Ann Howells
TeilnehmendeR:
Howells, Coral Ann,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; 73.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART I: LITERATURE
  • 1 Stories of Wilderness and Settlement
  • Alice Munro's Heritage Narratives
  • - Coral Ann Howells
  • Gabrielle Roy: La Petite Poule d'Eau
  • - Peter Noble
  • 2 History and Its Secrets: Criminality and Violence
  • Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
  • - Coral Ann Howells
  • Anne Hébert: Kamouraska and Les Fous de Bassan
  • - Peter Noble
  • 3 Maritime Gothic
  • Ann-Marie MacDonald: Fall On Your Knees
  • -Coral Ann Howells
  • Antonine Maillet: Crache à pic and Mariaagélas
  • -Peter Noble
  • 4 History and Dispossession: First Nations Writers
  • Bernard Assiniwi: Le Bras-Coupé
  • -Peter Noble
  • Tomson Highway: Kiss of the Fur Queen
  • -Coral Ann Howells
  • 5 Nomadism and History
  • Régine Robin: La Québécoite
  • -Peter Noble
  • Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces
  • -Coral Ann Howells
  • PART II: FILM
  • 6 Stories of Wilderness and Settlement
  • Gilles Carle: Maria Chapdelaine
  • -Tony Simons
  • Atom Egoyan: The Sweet Hereafter
  • -David Hutchison
  • 7 History and Its Secrets: Criminality and Violence
  • Denys Arcand: Jésus de Montréal
  • -Tony Simons
  • Phillip Borsos: The Grey Fox
  • -David Hutchison
  • 8 Maritime Gothic
  • Mort Ransen: Margaret's Museum
  • -Scott Henderson
  • Jacques Savoie: Massabielle
  • -Tony Simons
  • 9 History and Dispossession: First Nations Themes
  • Alanis Obomsawin: Kanehsatake
  • -Tony Simons
  • Vincent Ward: Map of the Human Heart
  • -Scott Henderson
  • 10 Nomadism and History
  • Léa Pool: Anne Trister
  • -Tony Simons
  • Ted Kotcheff: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  • - Scott Henderson
  • Conclusion
  • Notes on Contributors.

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