Die "andere" Literatur Nordamerikas: das kulturelle Selbstverständnis Kanadas im Spiegel seiner Literatur: Dargestellt an Romanen von Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje und Jane Urquhart

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GRIN Verlag, 2007 - 104 Seiten
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Bibliothekswissenschaften, Information Science, Note: 1,0, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, 74 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus der Literatur das gegenwärtige kulturelle Selbstverständnis Kanadas. Hierzu werden die Romane Der lange Traum von Margaret Atwood, In der Haut eines Löwen von Michael Ondaatje und Fort von Jane Urquhart auf ihre Hauptthemen und Botschaften hin analysiert. Als Hinführung zu dieser Analyse wird im ersten Teil der Arbeit ein Überblick über die historisch-kulturelle Entwicklung Kanadas - beginnend im 16. Jahrhundert - gegeben. Der Entwurf eines Ausstellungsprojektes zum Thema "Kanada", der sowohl eine Auswahl an Titeln zu Geographie, Gesellschaft und Politik dieses Landes, als auch an aktueller kanadischer Belletristik enthält, dient als Ergänzung zu dieser Untersuchung. Abgerundet wird die Arbeit durch ein Interview mit Astrid Holzamer, der Kulturreferentin der kanadischen Botschaft in Deutschland. Schlagwörter: Kanada, kulturelle Identität, Gegenwartsroman, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart This diploma thesis examines Canada's contemporary cultural self-perception based on selected examples of literature. The novels Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje and Away by Jane Urquhart are analysed for their main themes and messages. As an introduction to this analysis, the first part of the thesis gives a summary of the historical and cultural development of Canada starting in the 16th century. The study is supplemented by an outline for a display on the topic "Canada", containing a selection of titles relating to Canadian geography, society, politics and contemporary fiction. The thesis is completed by an interview with Astrid Holzamer who is the cultural attachée of the Canadian embassy in Germany. Keywords: Canada, cultural identity, contemporary fiction, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart
 

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Seite 21 - We French, we English, never lost our civil war, endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; no wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.
Seite 43 - However either alternative seems pretty hopeless; you know, you can define yourself as innocent and get killed, or you can define yourself as a killer and kill others. I think there has to be a third thing again; the ideal would be somebody who would neither be a killer or a victim, who could achieve some kind of harmony with the world, which is a productive or creative harmony, rather than a destructive relationship towards the world.
Seite 32 - We are all immigrants to this place even if we were born here : the country is too big for anyone to inhabit completely, and in the parts unknown to us we move in fear, exiles and invaders. This country is something that must be chosen — it is so easy to leave — and if we do choose it we are still choosing a violent duality.
Seite 16 - He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Seite 30 - Or you can have the Henry James kind, in which the ghost that one sees is in fact a fragment of one's own self which has split off, and that to me is the most interesting kind and that is obviously the tradition I'm working in.
Seite 16 - Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare : et a flumine usque ad terminos orbis terrarum.
Seite 13 - A culture founded on a revolutionary tradition, like that of the United States, is bound to show very different assumptions and imaginative patterns from those of a culture that rejects or distrusts revolution.
Seite 29 - A piece of art, as well as being a creation to be enjoyed, can also be (as Germaine Warkentin suggests) a mirror. The reader looks at the mirror and sees not the writer but himself; and behind his own image in the foreground, a reflection of the world he lives in.
Seite 17 - Canada is fairly well represented in their pages 44 —there is one respect in which Canadians have never won any marked success, and that is in the novel or romance.

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