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.
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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