Showing papers in "British Journal of Canadian Studies in 2018"
TL;DR: This article described Canada as a country comprised of "hewers of wood and drawers of water" and used the staples approach that he advanced and which his followers subsequently further deviated from.
Abstract: Harold Innis (1930) famously described Canada as a country comprised of ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’. The staples approach that he advanced and which his followers subsequently further dev...
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TL;DR: Valley as mentioned in this paper is a collection of complex, challenging photographs, creative texts, and archival images with an essay from Wayne Reeves on the environmental history of Toronto's natural parklands and appendices filled with excellent guides to Toronto's environmentally sensitive areas.
Abstract: Valley, guided by literary responses to these green spaces, highlights how access brings with it the challenges of empathy with human and animal histories. This appealing package of complex, challenging photographs, creative texts, and archival images concludes with an essay from Wayne Reeves on the environmental history of Toronto’s natural parklands and appendices filled with excellent guides to Toronto’s environmentally sensitive areas (biodiversity hotspots). It should be viewed as a significant moment in the city’s recognition of creativity, and the entwined stories of its cultural and environmental history. Will Smith, University of Stirling
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TL;DR: The authors discusses how contemporary Asian Canadian literature was established at the end of the 1970s and developed with internal support from the members of the Japanese Canadian and Chinese Canadian communities in particular, and argues that the Asian Canadian literary enterprise was created and supported by communal efforts, and especially by the publication of magazines and anthologies.
Abstract: This article discusses how contemporary Asian Canadian literature was established at the end of the 1970s and developed with internal support from the members of the Japanese Canadian and Chinese Canadian communities in particular. I argue that the Asian Canadian literary enterprise was created and supported by communal efforts, and especially by the publication of magazines and anthologies. Communal grassroots magazines were efficient in mobilising Asian Canadian activism in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They also provided space for writers to explore various methods and aspects of self-expression and thus shaped a distinctive Asian Canadian consciousness. At the same time, they faced practical challenges which can be directly related to the political and cultural climate of late twentieth-century Canada. Anthologies not only announced the birth of contemporary Asian Canadian literature but also recorded and celebrated its various stages of development. Abstract: Dans cet article, il sera question de la maniere dont la litterature canadienne d’origine asiatique fut etablie a la fin des annees 1970 et comment elle s’est developpee avec le soutien des membres des communautes canadiennes d’origine japonaises et chinoises en particulier. Nous soutenons que la societe de litterature canadienne d’origine asiatique fut creee et soutenue par des efforts collectifs et surtout par la publication de magazines et d’anthologies. Les magazines communautaires ont su mobiliser efficacement l’activisme des canadiens d’origine asiatique de la fin des annees 1970 et des annees 1980. Ils ont egalement fourni aux auteurs un espace pour explorer diverses methodes et aspects d’auto-expression et ainsi ont contribue a la formation d’une conscience canadienne d’origine asiatique distincte. En meme temps, ils ont du faire face a des enjeux pratiques qui peuvent etre directement lies au climat politique et culturel du Canada de la fin du vingtieme siecle. Les anthologies ont non seulement annonce la naissance de la litterature canadienne d’origine asiatique contemporaine mais ont aussi consigne et salue les differentes etapes de son developpement.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how the desire to maintain the connection to the "mother country" contributed to the outcome of the movements for and against Confederation in Nova Scotia in the 1860s.
Abstract: This article discusses how the desire to maintain the connection to the ‘mother country’ contributed to the outcome of the movements for and against Confederation in Nova Scotia. In the 1860s, no o...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose to read the landscape in Jane Urquhart's Away both as a stratigraphy of memories and as a cultural medium that not only symbolises power relations but also works as an agent o...
Abstract: This article proposes to read the landscape in Jane Urquhart’s Away both as a stratigraphy of memories and as a cultural medium that not only symbolises power relations but also works as an agent o...
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TL;DR: In the year when Canadians celebrated 150 years of confederation, we recognise the frequent absence of cultural minorities from national commemorative events, such as the Acadians as discussed by the authors, and we recognize the need for cultural minorities to be included in these events.
Abstract: In the year when Canadians celebrate 150 years of confederation, we recognise the frequent absence of cultural minorities from national commemorative events, such as the Acadians. However, minority...
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TL;DR: In this article, Stirling and Stirling present a collection of photographs from the Notman Photographic Archives in Montreal, including views of Montreal, portraits, and landscape scenes of Canada.
Abstract: opportunity to reintroduce Notman to the public and examine his remarkable contribution to the history of Canadian photography. The ground work for this publication was laid by former Notman curator Stanley Triggs, who from the 1960s through the early 1990s wrote several important tomes. This extraordinarily informative book is organised into seven chapters. Seven contributors (six female, one male) add further insight into Notman’s rich cultural legacy. All have worked extensively on the Notman collection, and their essays are clearly and concisely written. The book opens with a useful biographical chronology of Notman and his family. Hélène Samson, curator of the Notman Photographic Archives since 2006, pens the first two chapters. In the first she gives an overview to the exhibition and publication. Her second chapter begins with Notman’s definition of photography as an art equal to painting and his lifelong attempts to elevate it and himself to a higher professional status. The other chapters examine individual, family, and group portraiture – his bread and butter; innovations into photomechanical techniques for illustrated publications and his business contacts with publishers; his invention of the halftone in 1869; the decipherment of the complicated numbering system he used; and a history of the collections acquisition by McGill. In addition to the seven essays there are three sections of photographs: views of Montreal, portraits, and landscape scenes of Canada. What emerges from the essays is a portrait of a ‘Renaissance’ man who was an astute businessman, marketing genius, and photographic innovator – certainly one of the foremost of his generation. His photographs appeared everywhere. The book is a valuable addition to the literature on Notman and to photography enthusiasts. J. Craig Stirling, Montreal
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TL;DR: Wiseman et al. as discussed by the authors present a collection of essays about Canadian history, political science, and international relations in the postwar period, focusing on Pearson's pragmatic and idealist tendencies.
Abstract: scholarship makes clear. But the richness of the collection leaves the paradox unresolved, as if Pearson’s legacy drips with a slight and curious ambiguity. This volume holds tremendous value for students and senior scholars, nonetheless. Readers interested in Canadian history, political science, and international relations in the postwar period will find much to contemplate. General audiences might find the analysis overwhelming, but the organised manner with which the collection charts Pearson’s pragmatic and idealist tendencies is both commendable and instructive. The contributors should be very pleased. All good works of history attempt to answer old questions while raising new ones, not all succeed. Complex, engaging, and fresh, Mike’s World is one of the exceptions. Matthew S. Wiseman, University of Toronto
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TL;DR: In a series of public lectures given to raise funds for Belgian relief, a widely distributed pamphlet urging the reorganisation of Canada’s national economy, and dozens of humorous short works collected in volumes between 1915 and 1919, Leacock embraced the period's propagandistic spirit while subverting many propaganda tropes as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Stephen Leacock (1869–1944), the best-known Canadian humourist of the early twentieth century, turned his pen to the support of the British Empire’s cause during the course of the First World War. Through a series of public lectures given to raise funds for Belgian relief, a widely distributed pamphlet urging the reorganisation of Canada’s national economy, and dozens of humorous short works collected in volumes between 1915 and 1919, Leacock embraced the period’s propagandistic spirit while subverting many propagandistic tropes. In works ostensibly intended to shore up home-front morale and encourage civilians to contribute to the war effort, Leacock gently mocks those same civilians’ pretensions when it comes to their ‘involvement’ in the war. Politicians and businessmen, farmers and aristocrats, allies and enemies alike – all are skewered, with the ultimate lesson being that their greatest contribution to the war effort might just be their humility.
TL;DR: The authors employ Mackey's concept of settler uncertainty to analyse my place in settler colonialism, where I grew up in the quintessential Canadian setting of Parry Sound, Ontario.
Abstract: In this anecdotal article, I employ Eva Mackey’s concept of settler uncertainty to analyse my place in settler colonialism. I grew up in the quintessential Canadian setting of Parry Sound, Ontario ...
TL;DR: The authors examines how ancestral figurations, cosmological paradigms, forced migration to the New World during Scotland's diaspora, and Indigenous displacement/settler expansion in Cape Breton combine to produce the cultural illness and the personal strife that possess -and dispossess -Moranna from without, and from within.
Abstract: In An Audience of Chairs (2005), novelist Joan Clark traces the trajectory of madness of Moranna MacKenzie, an intense, complex character who resists the pharmaceuticals associated with the mentally ill. Instead she retreats to the family farmhouse in Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where she carves ancestral faces that surface, ghostlike, in the trees on her property. The labour soothes ‘Mad Mory’ and she sells her folk art to summer tourists. According to Ian McKay’s The Quest of the Folk (1994), this type of craftwork is a form of therapy to shore up a disturbed psyche within the ‘sick’ modern liberal order. Relying on discussions of postcolonial ‘hauntology’, this article examines how ancestral figurations, cosmological paradigms, forced migration to the New World during Scotland’s diaspora, and Indigenous displacement/settler expansion in Cape Breton combine to produce the cultural illness and the personal strife that possess – and dispossess – Moranna from without, and from within.
TL;DR: The work of Icelandic-Canadian writer Kristjana Gunnars crosses genres and confuses the boundaries between fiction, poetry, biography, essay, and theory as discussed by the authors, and this article addresses her relationship to...
Abstract: The work of Icelandic-Canadian writer Kristjana Gunnars crosses genres and confuses the boundaries between fiction, poetry, biography, essay, and theory. This article addresses her relationship to ...
TL;DR: The authors argues that Margaret Laurence's writings about Somalia and Ghana offer a critical yet ideologically loaded conception of development, modernity, and affiliation, and argues that these writings anticipate Anthony Smith's recognition of the way ethnic identities predate and underpin conceptions of the nation.
Abstract: This article argues that Margaret Laurence’s writings about Somalia and Ghana offer a critical yet ideologically loaded conception of development, modernity, and affiliation. It contends that these writings anticipate Anthony Smith’s recognition of the way ethnic identities predate and underpin conceptions of the nation; in so doing, Laurence’s work challenges theorisations of nationalism such as those of Benedict Anderson. At the same time, Laurence’s writings employ a type of Eurocentrism in that they formulate an antimodernism that conceives of African cultures as having the potential to revitalise the West not by being immemorially pre-modern, but rather by existing at an earlier, pre-national phase in a Western model of social development. Her African writings both use and subvert a progress narrative in which Western experiences of modernisation are universal; accordingly, they highlight a shortcoming that is common to theorists such as Anderson and others whose more nuanced theorisations Laurence anticipates. Abstract: Cet article fait valoir que les ecrits de Margaret Laurence sur la Somalie et le Ghana presentent une conception critique du developpement, de la modernite et de l’affiliation bien que charges ideologiquement. Il affirme que ces ecrits ont anticipe la reconnaissance faite par Anthony Smith de la facon dont les identites ethniques precedent et sous-tendent les conceptions de la nation; ce faisant, l’œuvre de Laurence remet en question les theories de nationalisme telles que celle de Benedict Anderson. Dans le meme temps, les ecrits de Laurence emploient une forme d’eurocentrisme en ce sens qu’ils formulent un anti-modernisme qui concoit les cultures africaines comme ayant le potentiel de revivifier l’Ouest non comme etant premoderne d’une maniere immemoriale mais plutot comme ayant existe a une phase pre-nationale anterieure dans un modele occidental de developpement social. Ses ecrits africains utilisent et renversent a la fois un recit du progres dans lequel les experiences occidentales de modernisation sont universelles; en consequence, ils mettent en evidence une faille commune aux theoriciens tels qu’Anderson ou d’autres aux theories plus nuancees que Laurence a devances.
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TL;DR: The UNESCO World Heritage Convention (1972) was conceived with the mandate of protecting cultural and natural sites that represent part of the global narrative of humanity as discussed by the authors, and it was created with the goal of preserving the cultural heritage of the world.
Abstract: The UNESCO World Heritage Convention (1972) was conceived with the mandate of protecting cultural and natural sites that represent part of the global narrative of humanity. This article contextuali...