Anxious Allegiances: Legitimizing Identity in the Early Canadian Long PoemMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1998 - 174 Seiten Relying upon deconstruction, discourse analysis, and close examination of contemporary historical events, Mazoff identifies and explores the periodic "ruptures" in the texts - inconsistencies, contradictions, anomalies, and deflections - that underscore the tension between the "unsaid" (the real historical, economic, and social conditions) and the surface level of the narrative (the aesthetic and genre constraints). His analysis reveals the extent to which problems of allegiance, anxiety, and identity were inextricably involved in the colonial and national projects, an involvement which the poetry, despite its intentions, could neither mask nor resolve. Offering insight on canonical Canadian long poems from Thomas Cary's Abram's Plains to Isabella Valancy Crawford's Hugh and Ion as well as the works of many lesser-known writers, Anxious Allegiances will be of great interest to literary scholars as well as historians, political scientists, and communication theorists studying the political and economic discourses at work in imperial-colonial relations. |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abram's Plains Acadia Adam Hood ambivalence American attempt attitude Bailey's baseland Bayley Bentley Burke Burwell Burwell's Cana Canadian long poem Canadian Poetry Canto Cary Cary's clearly colonial commerce Crawford criticism cultural depiction despite early Canadian long economic emigration emphasis English exile fact forest French French Canadians Gay]Grey Moose Goldsmith History of Quebec Howe's Hugh and Ion Huron Chief Ibid imperial Indian Isabella Valancy Isabella Valancy Crawford Kidd Kidd's Kirby Kirby's land landscape legitimate Liston literary literature Longmore's Lower Canada Loyalists Mackay Mackay's Malcolm's Katie Max's McLachlan metaphors Métis Micmac Mimic Fires Montreal Motives Narrative Verse Satire narrator narrator's Native nature Northwest Company notes Nova Scotia o'er O'Grady O'Grady's Oliver Goldsmith poet poetic points political portray progress province Quebec reader relies rhetorical strategies Rising Village Sangster savage seen settlers social Talbot Road Tecumseh throughout the poem tion topographical Toronto trade underscoring Upper Canada Vincent vision wealth wilderness