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Imagining Culture

New World Narrative and the Writing of Canada

by (author) Margaret Turner

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 1995
Category
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773513082
    Publish Date
    Aug 1995
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773513617
    Publish Date
    Aug 1995
    List Price
    $32.95

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Turner examines the manner in which a new world culture represents itself, creates its origins, and constructs and understands the construction of its cultural history. She supports her theory with an analysis of paradigmatic texts by John Richardson, Frederick Philip Grove, Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, and Jane Urquhart that articulate the predicament of the new world writer. Imagining Culture reveals the haunting of Language and imagination that attends the search for origins and belonging, and shows how Canadian writers enact the processes of inhabiting the new world and imagining its culture.

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"Carefully constructed and elegantly written, Imagining Culture makes a substantial and original contribution to the field of postcolonial Canadian debates." Gary Boire, English, Wilfrid Laurier University.