History, Literature And the Writing of the Canadian Prairies

by Calder, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780887556821
• ISBN10: 0887556825
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-14
• Publisher: Univ of Manitoba Pr

Summary

A collection of essays that reconfigures "the prairie" as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents.

Table of Contents

Introduction : when is the prairie?	p. 3
The tantalizing possibility of living on the plains	p. 25
The melting of time in Thomas Wharton's Icefields	p. 43
Autogeology : limestone and life narrative in Carol Shields's The stone diaries	p. 63
Coyote as culprit : 'her-story' and feminist fantastic in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The cure for death by lightning	p. 87
Robert Kroetsch, Marshall McLuhan, and Canada's prairie postmodernism : the Aberhart effect	p. 101
The "precarious perch" of the "decent woman" : spatial (de)constructions of gender in women's prairie memoirs	p. 141
Documents in the postmodern long prairie poem	p. 175
Reconstructions of literary settings in North America's prairie regions : a cross-cultural comparison of Red Cloud, Nebraska, and Neepawa, Manitoba	p. 213
A timeless imagined prairie : return and regeneration in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka novels	p. 235
Time's grip along the Atbabasca, 1920s and 1930s	p. 259
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