Canadian Identity and History

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How does a girl from Grundy, Virginia, become a successful writer? The interviews and profiles in Conversations with Lee Smith tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential literary place. In this first book of interviews with Smith, she revels in character and sense of place as co…

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• ABDULMUTTALİP ARİ

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• SUAT AKBULUT

With their brevity, ascetic style, and lack of resolutions, Raymond Carver's minimalist short stories have often served as an example of an unstylized and even clumsy attempt to depict the more prosaic aspects of everyday life, resulting in a literature of utter banality. Against the background of the unquestioned cul…

• DANIEL JUST

This paper examines the strategies Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, and Margaret Atwood employ in their revisionist mythmaking project to disclose and denounce the detrimental impact of patriarchal norms and institutions on women and gender equality. The poets rewrite classical myths and fairy tales this time to tell the…

This article takes a critical look at the established wisdom regarding the early twentieth century dispute between Canada and the United States over the contours of the Alaska Panhandle. In Canada, the affair is commonly recollected as having featured a sinister combination of American nationalist bullying and duplici…

• TUDOR ANDREI ONEA

This examination of the autobiographical collection American Indian Stories (1921) by Native American woman writer Gertrude Bonnin, considers the various strategies of resistance to assimilation that are used. Homi Bhabha's theory of the Third Space and of hybridity illuminates this study of a “liminal” writer (Fisher…

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Marjory Harper; Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada Dirk Hoerder, The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, 1 November 2000, Pages 1350, h

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Postmodern rejection of objective knowledge and of the belief in language to provide a faithful representation of reality lead to the reappraisal of various notions including history and bring a different approach to its relation to literature. Coined by Linda Hutcheon, the term historiographic metafiction defines an…

• ÖZGE KARİP SEYREK