Climate of Unrest: Periodicals in the Twenties and Thirties
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Climbing Mount Everest: Postcolonialism in Culture of Ascent
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Closed Circle
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Collaborative Auto/biography and Aboriginal Enfranchisement
in Occupied Canada
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Colloquial Style and the Tory Mode
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Colonial Contracts: Marriage, Rape, and Consent in Malcolm’s Katie
Abstract: This paper considers the implications of the final lines of Isabella Valancy Crawford’s 1884 long poem Malcolm’s Katie: A Love story, in which the newlywed settler wife proclaims that she would not exchange the bounty of a settler wife’s life for Eden itself
if I knew my mind,arguing that the poem’s feminist urgency lies in its self-conscious depiction of Katie’s
absent mindedness(Bentley
Introduction) and Crawford’s suggestive portrayal of the consequences of Katie’s lack of consciousness for the regulation of her body, its affects, and its reproductive potential within colonial society. Drawing from studies of later-nineteenth-century law around marriage, rape and property, this paper investigates the poem’s representation of feminine desire and consent as central to an understanding women as vehicles of both territorial claim and inheritance through which the acquisition of colonial land is justified, naturalized, and perpetuated on behalf of the developing nation.
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Colonial Cosmopolitanism? Resistance, Aesthetics, and Modernism in Patrick Anderson’s Prose
Abstract: In this article, I contend with the claim that Patrick Anderson exemplifies the failure of Canadian modernist cosmopolitanism. I explore the potential value and limitation of Anderson’s works as what I have termed “colonial cosmopolitanism”. I view colonial cosmopolitanism as a form of cosmopolitan thought that brings its inherent contradiction to the fore.
Anderson’s travel writing, with its inward gaze, self-critical narration, and engagement with difference, suggest that one of the central contributions Anderson makes in this period is defining Canadian cosmopolitanism in the genre of travel writing. Anderson’s work offers a more nuanced way of thinking about cosmopolitanism in a colonial context. In this article, I demonstrate some of the ways that Anderson’s modernist cosmopolitanism can at least partially succeed, all while continuing to acknowledge and tease out the “exemplary failure” of colonial cosmopolitanism to extricate itself from colonial ideology.
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Colonialist Discourse, Lord Featherstone’s Yawn and the Significance of the Denouement in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
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Coming Home through Grandmother Rosa’s Story: Basil Johnston’s Crazy Dave
Abstract: This essay focuses on Basil Johnston’s Crazy Dave, a narrative which tells of Johnston’s disconnection from his Anishinaubae culture and his relationship with his paternal grandmother Rosa McLeod and with his uncle David McLeod. My essay examines the ways in which Grandmother Rosa initiates the process of mental decolonization by transmitting cultural knowledge to Johnston who in turn uses this knowledge to rebuild his identity, reconceptualize his understanding of place, and return home. Employing William Bevis’ “homing in” model, Anthony Paul Kerby’s identity formation analysis, Joseph E. Couture’s examination of the role of Elders, and Neal McLeod’s “coming home [as] hermeneutical act” model, the paper demonstrates how, by narrating Grandmother Rosa’s life story, Johnston successfully journeys from ignorance to knowledge, appreciating how his dislocation and alienation originated in the past, and how his removal to residential school many years before was part of a larger history of colonization.
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Coming Home to the World
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