{"product_id":"history-literature-and-the-writing-of-the-canadian-prairies-9780887556821","title":"History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alison Calder | Robert Wardhaugh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Manitoba Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Manitoba Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. In a collection of ten essays, \u003cem\u003eHistory, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies\u003c\/em\u003e explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures \"the prairie\" as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese writers explore the connections between document and imagination, between history and culture, and between geography and time.The subjects of the essays range widely: the non-linear structure of Carol Shield's \u003cem\u003eThe Stone Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e; the impact of Aberhart's Social Credit, Marshall McLuhan, and Mesopotamian myth on Robert Kroetsch's prairie postmodernism; the role of document in long prairie poems; the connection between cultural tourism and heritage; the theme of regeneration in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka writing; the influence of imagination on geography in Thomas Wharton's Icefields; and the effects on an alpine climber of pre-WWII ideological concepts of time and individualism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47587069526167,"sku":"9780887556821","price":3026.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780887556821.webp?v=1774966273","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/history-literature-and-the-writing-of-the-canadian-prairies-9780887556821","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}