Imagining Culture
New World Narrative and the Writing of Canada
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 1995
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773565432
- Publish Date
- Aug 1995
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Turner examines the manner in which a new world culture represents itself, creates its origins, and constructs and understands the construction of its cultural history. She supports her theory with an analysis of paradigmatic texts by John Richardson, Frederick Philip Grove, Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, and Jane Urquhart that articulate the predicament of the new world writer. Imagining Culture reveals the haunting of language and imagination that attends the search for origins and belonging, and shows how Canadian writers enact the processes of inhabiting the new world and imagining its culture.
About the author
Margaret E. Turner is a specialist in Canadian literature living in Guelph, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
"Carefully constructed and elegantly written, Imagining Culture makes a substantial and original contribution to the field of postcolonial Canadian debates." Gary Boire, English, Wilfrid Laurier University.