White Civility: The Literary Project of English CanadaUniversity of Toronto Press, 10 черв. 2006 р. - 320 стор. 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. |
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... writing is immensely rewarding . While much of this enterprise must be carried out alone , I am very aware of how many people and organiza- tions have contributed to making it feasible for me to undertake this research in the first ...
... writing Other Solitudes , a title which , like Bannerji's , makes its meaning through contrast , this time through ... writing over the past thirty years in Canada , because they see in it the potential to pluralize what had been a bicul ...
... Writing ' 334 ) . Although the Imperial Federation League had been formed in London in 1884 , the issue came to a crisis at the beginning of the twentieth century when American financier J. Pierpont Morgan purchased so many shipping ...
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Fratricide and Civility in English Canadas | 46 |
Inventing the Properties | 81 |
The Muscular Christian in Fictions of the Canadian West | 128 |
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