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Literary Criticism Canadian

New Brunswick at the Crossroads

Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East

edited by Tony Tremblay

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2017
Category
Canadian, Regional Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771122078
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $41.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771122092
    Publish Date
    Oct 2017
    List Price
    $23.99

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What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity?
New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these questions and explores the relationships between periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions of those times.
The province’s literature is ideally suited to such a study because of its bicultural character—in both English and French, periods of intense literary creativity occurred at different times and for different reasons. What emerges is a cultural geography in New Brunswick that has existed not in isolation from the rest of Canada but often at the creative forefront of imagined alternatives in identity and citizenship. At a time when cultural industries are threatened by forces that seek to negate difference and impose uniformity, New Brunswick at the Crossroads provides an understanding of the intersection of cultures and social economies, contributing to critical discussions about what constitutes “the creative” in Canadian society, especially in rural, non-central spaces like New Brunswick.

About the author

Tony Tremblay joined the English Department in 1996. He has published widely in the fields of technology, film, media, pedagogy, and literary modernism. He edited David Adams Richards: Essays on his Work (Guernica, 2005) and George Sanderson: Editor and Cultural Worker (Antigonish Review, 2007). Currently he is Canada Research Chair in New Brunswick Studies. The son of three generations of mill workers, he grew up in Dalhousie.

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