Before the Country : Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology
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| Title: | Before the Country : Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology |
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| Description: | In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent to which this growing body of literature influenced non-Native Canadian writers and has been fundamental in shaping our search for a national mythology.In the context of Northrop Frye's theories of myth, and in light of the attempts of social critics and early anthologists to define Canada and Canadian literature, McKenzie discusses the ways in which our decidedly fractured sense of literary nationalism has set indigenous culture apart from the mainstream. She examines anew the aesthetics of Native Literature and, in a style that is creative as much as it is scholarly, McKenzie incorporates the principles of storytelling into the unfolding of her argument. This strategy not only enlivens her narrative, but also underscores the need for new theoretical strategies in the criticism of Aboriginal literatures. Before the Country invites us to engage in one such endeavour. |
| Authors: | Stephanie McKenzie |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Myth in literature, Mythology in literature, Nationalism and literature--Canada--History--20th century, Indians of North America--Canada--Intellectual life, Canadian literature--Indian authors--History and criticism, Indians in literature, Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism, Indigenous peoples--Canada--Intellectual life |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent to which this growing body of literature influenced non-Native Canadian writers and has been fundamental in shaping our search for a national mythology.In the context of Northrop Frye's theories of myth, and in light of the attempts of social critics and early anthologists to define Canada and Canadian literature, McKenzie discusses the ways in which our decidedly fractured sense of literary nationalism has set indigenous culture apart from the mainstream. She examines anew the aesthetics of Native Literature and, in a style that is creative as much as it is scholarly, McKenzie incorporates the principles of storytelling into the unfolding of her argument. This strategy not only enlivens her narrative, but also underscores the need for new theoretical strategies in the criticism of Aboriginal literatures. Before the Country invites us to engage in one such endeavour. |
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| ISBN: | 9780802094469 9780802092083 9781442684041 9781442691445 |
