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Vancouver: The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
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Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
U of Toronto P $60.00 While The Melting Queen, a first novel about Edmonton as it never/always was, and You Can't Get There From Here, a scholarly study of representations of small Ontario towns in the works of four Canadian authors, are different in almost every way, they are both about memory: the ways in which the past is continually recreated in service of the present. Though overwritten at times, the novel points to the painful roots of colonial Canada, and argues for the need to confront the difficult reality underlying celebrations of pioneer heritage and civic identity. Porter's starting point is that in their representations of small towns, each of these authors, with varying degrees of self-consciousness, "examine[s] the operations of memory that produce that past" The importance here is not only in what is remembered, but also in how each text shows memory functioning to construct, to challenge, or to accept versions of the past.