Where Are the Voices Coming From?

Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History

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Coral Ann Howells
This collection of essays focuses on Canadian history and its legacies as represented in novels and films in English and French, produced in Canada mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. The approach is both cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, aiming at articulating Canadian differences through a comparison of anglophone and francophone cultures, illustrated by works treating some of the different groups which make up Canadian society – English-Canadian, Québecois, Acadian, Native, and ethnic minorities. The emphasis is on the problematic representation of Canadianness, which is closely bound up with constructions of history and its legacies – dispossession, criminality, nomadism, Gothicism, the Maritime.
The English/French language difference is emblematic of Canadian difference; the two-part arrangement, with one section on Literature and the other on Film, sets up the pattern of relationships between the two forms of cultural representation that these essays explore. Essays in the Literature section are on single texts by such writers as: Margaret Atwood, Tomson Highway, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Anne Michaels, and Alice Munro; Gabrielle Roy, Anne Hébert, Antonine Maillet, Bernard Assiniwi, and Régine Robin. The Film section with its mirror structure both supplements and amplifies this dialogue, extending notions of Canadianness with its emphasis on voices from Quebec and Acadia traditionally ‘othered’ in Canadian history. Filmmakers treated include: Phillip Borsos, Atom Egoyan, Ted Kotcheff, Mort Ransen, and Vincent Ward; Denys Arcand, Gilles Carle, Alanis Obomsawin, Léa Pool, and Jacques Savoie.
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2004
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CORAL ANN HOWELLS is Professor of English and Canadian Literature at the University of Reading, UK. She has written and lectured extensively on Canadian writing in English.
"…a well-edited book…a notable contribution to the continuing discussion on the importance of Canada’s past and its dialogic representation in literature and film." - in: Anglistik, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2007)
"…welcome addition […] to the international scholarship on Canadian literature…." - in: English Studies in Canada, Vol. 31, No. 4 (2005)
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: LITERATURE
1 Stories of Wilderness and Settlement
Alice Munro’s Heritage Narratives
— Coral Ann Howells
Gabrielle Roy: La Petite Poule d’Eau
— Peter Noble
2 History and Its Secrets: Criminality and Violence
Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
— Coral Ann Howells
Anne Hébert: Kamouraska and Les Fous de Bassan
— Peter Noble
3 Maritime Gothic
Ann–Marie MacDonald: Fall On Your Knees
—Coral Ann Howells
Antonine Maillet: Crache à pic and Mariaagélas
—Peter Noble
4 History and Dispossession: First Nations Writers
Bernard Assiniwi: Le Bras-Coupé
—Peter Noble
Tomson Highway: Kiss of the Fur Queen
—Coral Ann Howells
5 Nomadism and History
Régine Robin: La Québécoite
—Peter Noble
Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces
—Coral Ann Howells
PART II: FILM
6 Stories of Wilderness and Settlement
Gilles Carle: Maria Chapdelaine
—Tony Simons
Atom Egoyan: The Sweet Hereafter
—David Hutchison
7 History and Its Secrets: Criminality and Violence
Denys Arcand: Jésus de Montréal
—Tony Simons
Phillip Borsos: The Grey Fox
—David Hutchison
8 Maritime Gothic
Mort Ransen: Margaret’s Museum
—Scott Henderson
Jacques Savoie: Massabielle
—Tony Simons
9 History and Dispossession: First Nations Themes
Alanis Obomsawin: Kanehsatake
—Tony Simons
Vincent Ward: Map of the Human Heart
—Scott Henderson
10 Nomadism and History
Léa Pool: Anne Trister
—Tony Simons
Ted Kotcheff: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
— Scott Henderson
Conclusion
Notes on Contributors
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