Cara Fabre

Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms

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Produktbeschreibung

In the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms, Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its many forms contributes to common assumptions about the causes, and personal and social implications, of addiction. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781442631960
• ISBN-10: 1442631961
• Artikelnr.: 45061831

Autorenporträt

Cara Fabre is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reading and Teaching Addiction as Social Suffering
Chapter 1: Ideological Tropes of Contemporary Addiction Narratives
Chapter 2: Poverty, Individualism, and the Meaningful Uses of Alcohol and
Drugs in Christy Ann Conlin’s Heave and Heather O’Neill’s lullabies for
little criminals
Chapter 3: Anorexia and the Production of Economically Oriented Subjects in
Ibi Kaslik’s Skinny and Kevin Patterson’s Consumption
Chapter 4: Dismantling the Myth of the Drunken Indian through Beatrice
Culleton Mosionier’s In Search of April Raintree and Eden Robinson’s
Monkey Beach 
Conclusion: From Innocence to Accountability
Endnotes
Bibliography