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1 online resource (371 pages) |
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pt. 1 Nature and the Memory of the World -- Introduction / Francoise Besson -- ch. One Varieties of Environmental Nostalgia / Scott Slovic -- ch. Two Urban Recesses: Memory, Nature and the City / Tim Youngs -- ch. Three The Town and the Wild / Thomas Wharton -- ch. Four New Land, Ancient Land / Rudy Wiebe -- ch. Five "Curtailed by the Sublime: Canada, Nature, and the Contingences of Beauty" / Aritha van Herk -- ch. Six Imagined Geographies and the Memory of Nature in Three Stories by Alice Munro / Christine Lorre-Johnston -- ch. Seven Quand la nature fait retour: Betsi Larousse de Louis Hamelin et Champagne de Monique Proulx / Sylvie Vignes -- ch. Eight Derriere les embruns, memoire de peine et de misere / Andre Maindron -- ch. Nine Memories of Nature and the Colonization of American First Nations: A Distinct Rendition of Aboriginal Genocides in a Historiographic Quebecois Novel / Julie LeBlanc -- pt. 2 The Nature of Aboriginal Narration |
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Introduction / Heliane Ventura -- ch. Ten C'est/ce n'est pas un roman: Kiss of the Fur Queen, de Tomson Highway / Jean-Jacques Lecercle -- ch. Eleven The Poetics of the Kiss and the Forms of Violence in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen / Heliane Ventura -- ch. Twelve Interracial Relations -- (Re)writing the Stereotype in Native and Non-Native Literatures: Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill and Pauline Johnson / Corinne Bigot -- ch. Thirteen Memory and Revenge: The Rational Animal in "A Red Girl's Reasoning" by Pauline Johnson / Heliane Ventura -- ch. Fourteen Nature as Memory and the Needs for Agents of Recall: From Shaman to Curator in Eden Robinson and Jon Whyte / Harry Vandervlist -- ch. Fifteen Real and Mythical Animals in N. Scott Momaday's Work: Who is at the Origin of First Narratives? / Francoise Besson -- ch. Sixteen Alexis Wright's Ode to Aboriginality in Carpentaria / Colette Selles |
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pt. 3 The Mediation and Curation of Nature through Visual Arts -- Introduction / Claire Omhovere -- ch. Seventeen D̀ocumenting Disappearance': A Century of Canadian Photography, from William McFarlane Notman to Edward Burtynsky and Douglas Coupland / Claire Omhovere -- ch. Eighteen The Deer Hunters: Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and Randy Redroad's The Doe Boy / Lee Schweninger -- ch. Nineteen Plumes et pinceaux, la representation autochtone dans Shadow Tag de Louise Erdrich / Elizabeth Bouzonviller -- ch. Twenty Telling Stories on Canvas: An Analysis of Norval Morrisseau's Visual Narratives / Carmen Robertson -- ch. Twenty-One La memoire des territoires et les territoires de la memoire dans l'art autochtone contemporain au Canada / Genevieve Chevallier -- ch. Twenty-Two Emily Carr's Controversial Inner Journey: From France to First Nations Totems / Catherine Lanone |
| Summary |
This volume engages the reader's interest in the relationship that binds man to nature, a relationship which makes itself manifest through certain literary or visual artefacts produced by Native or non-Native writers and artists. It ranges from the study of literatures (mainly from Canada - including Quebec and Acadia - but also from Britain, the United States of America, France, Turkey, and Australia) to the exploration of films, photographs, paintings and sculptures produced by Aboriginal a .. |
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Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Literature & literary studies.
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Art of indigenous peoples.
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Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Canadian literature -- Indian authors
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Omhovère, Claire
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Ventura, Héliane
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| ISBN |
9781443861618 |
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1443861618 |
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1306875870 |
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9781306875875 |
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1443854735 |
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9781443854733 |
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