A study of the work of contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. Examines their treatment of work, culture, and history, and highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians as improvident and regressive, if charming, folk.
A study of the work of contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. Examines their treatment of work, culture, and history, and highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians as improvident and regressive, if charming, folk.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Herb Wyile is a professor of English at Acadia University. He is the author of Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (2002) and Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction (WLU Press, 2007). He co-edited, with Jeanette Lynes, Surf's Up! The Rising Tide of Atlantic-Canadian Literature (2008) and created the website Waterfront Views: Contemporary Writing of Atlantic Canada.
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Table of Contents for Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Herb Wyile List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: "Now Our Masters Have No Borders" Section One: I'se the Bye That Leaves the Boats: The Changing World of Work 2: Sucking the Mother Dry: The Fisheries 3: "Acceptable Levels of Risk": Mining and Offshore Oil 4: Uncivil Servitude: The Service Sector Conclusion to Section One Section Two: "About as Far From Disneyland as You Can Possibly Get": The Reshaping of Culture 5: The Simpler and More Colourful Way of Life" 6: Rebuffing the Gaze Conclusion to Section Two Section Three: The Age of Sale: History, Globalization, and Commodification 7: "A 'Sea-Change' of Sorts": Newfoundland and Labrador 8: "A Place that Didn't Count Any More": The Maritimes Conclusion to Section Three Conclusion: Speculative Fiction for the Rest of the Country? Notes Works Cited Photo Credits Index
Table of Contents for Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Herb Wyile List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: "Now Our Masters Have No Borders" Section One: I'se the Bye That Leaves the Boats: The Changing World of Work 2: Sucking the Mother Dry: The Fisheries 3: "Acceptable Levels of Risk": Mining and Offshore Oil 4: Uncivil Servitude: The Service Sector Conclusion to Section One Section Two: "About as Far From Disneyland as You Can Possibly Get": The Reshaping of Culture 5: The Simpler and More Colourful Way of Life" 6: Rebuffing the Gaze Conclusion to Section Two Section Three: The Age of Sale: History, Globalization, and Commodification 7: "A 'Sea-Change' of Sorts": Newfoundland and Labrador 8: "A Place that Didn't Count Any More": The Maritimes Conclusion to Section Three Conclusion: Speculative Fiction for the Rest of the Country? Notes Works Cited Photo Credits Index
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