Reconstructing National Identity (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
284
Utgivningsdatum
2018-10-05
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Peter Lang AG
Medarbetare
Ertler, Klaus-Dieter
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
210 x 148 x 21 mm
Vikt
527 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
HC runder Rücken kaschiert
ISBN
9783631749371

Reconstructing National Identity

The Nation Forged in Fire-Myth and Canadian Literature

av Karin Ikas
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2018-10-05
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In the diversified and ambiguous, globally and glocally networked mobile present, national identities are challenged internally and externally in multiple ways. In Canada intellectuals and notable novelists have lately begun to remember and re-discover the significance of the First World War for their construction of a Canadian national identity. The book presents the first large-scale interdisciplinary analysis of these developments. The author of this Bourdieusian inspired literary-critical research work nails down the sociological foundations of the concept of the nation before then discussing aspects of the role of the First World War for (Canadian) national identity and the relevant memorial discourse. The reconstruction focuses on how remarkable Canadian authors including Hugh MacLennan, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Jane Urquhart, Frances Itani and Joseph Boyden have challenged, re-imagined and rewritten the Nation Forged in Fire-myth in the 20th and 21st century to bring to life the experiences of national minorities like women, indigenous people, migrants, war veterans, children and people with disabilities. The study shows that the literary workings on the myth, myth reconstruction and myth deconstruction is a fascinating though ambivalent and dynamic project in the Third Millennium.
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Karin Ikas is an Associate Professor of English, North American and Postcolonial Studies. She studied at the universities of Wrzburg (Germany) and Texas (UT Austin) and was a visiting scholar at various universities in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia. She received her Ph.D. in English and North American Studies and Didactics at Wrzburg University with overall excellence (summa cum laude). Her doctoral thesis on modern Chicana Literature won the Daimler Chrysler Foundations "Academy Award for Intercultural Studies 2001." Her Habilitation she obtained in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard) prefaced her co-edited book Communicating in the Third Space.

Innehållsförteckning

What is a Nation? The Construction of National Identity (The Tradition of) Inventing the Canadian Nation Inventing the Nation Forged in Fire The World at War: The First World War as the Great War Canada at War: The First World War as Hotbed for Inventing the Canadian Nation The Nation Forged in Fire-Myth in Contemporary Memorial Culture The Literary Reconstruction of the Canadian Nation Forged in Fire Concussion and a Translocation of the Nations Birthplace: Hugh MacLennans Barometer Rising The Paradoxical Community of Isolated Individuals: Timothy Findleys The Wars The Returned Soldiers Need for Community: Jack Hodgins Broken Ground The Canadian National Vimy Memorial and a New Epic Tale of the Birth of the Nation: Jane Urquharts The Stone Carvers The (Dis)Ability Issue: Frances Itanis Deafening The Native Point of View: Joseph Boydens Three Day Road

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