- 232 pages
- English
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About this book
New ways of thinking about literature and history have radically changed how we think about or even "define" a region like the Prairie West. In fact, the very concept of "defining" has come into question by new theoretical approaches and it may now seem a hopeless endeavour. But the process of defining can be just as important as the actual production of a definition.
Toward Defining the Prairies highlights recent approaches to thinking about the Prairie West. Bounded by pieces from well-known historian Gerald Friesen and Governor-General's Award-winning writer Robert Kroetsch, these 13 essays are as diverse as the region itself. In their examination of different aspects of Prairie history, literature, climate, society, culture, and identity, they help to provide a new understanding of this place and of the complexities of its definition.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Tandem and Tangent
- Defining the Prairies: or, why the prairies don't exist
- Alberta Social Credit and the Second National Policy
- From the Inside Out: The World of Mennonite Diaries
- Making Modern Citizens: The Construction of Masculine MiddleâClass Identity on the Canadian Prairies, 1890â1920
- Who's from the Prairie? Some Prairie SelfâRepresentations in Popular Culture
- An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Role of Climate in the History of the Prairies
- Indelible Grasslands: Place, Memory, and the "Life Review"
- Novels that Named a City: Fictional Pretexts of Flin Flon
- The Prairies as Cosmopolitan Space: Recent 'Prairie' Poetry
- Western Frontiers and Evolving Gender Identity in Aritha van Herk's The Tent Peg
- The Female Body as Garrison in Three Prairie Biotexts
- Life Sentence, passwords, and local pride: prairie in the poetic journals of Eli Mandel and Dennis Cooley
- Don't Give Me No More of Your Lip; or, the Prairie Horizon as Allowed Mouth
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CONTRIBUTORS