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- catalog abstract ""Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined them-selves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the North has been central to the Canadian imagination." "Sherrill Grace argues that Canadians have always used ideas of Canada-as-North to promote a distinct national identity and national unity. In a penultimate chapter - The North Writes Back - Grace presents newly emerging northern voices and shows how they view the long tradition of representing the North by southern activists, artists, and scholars." "With the recent creation of Nunavut, increasing concern about northern ecosystems and social challenges, and renewed attention to Canada's role as a circumpolar nation, Canada and the Idea of North shows that nordicity still plays an urgent and central role in Canada at the start of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12549811.
- catalog coverage "Canada (Nord)".
- catalog coverage "Canada, Northern In art.".
- catalog coverage "Canada, Northern In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Canada, Northern.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined them-selves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the North has been central to the Canadian imagination." "Sherrill Grace argues that Canadians have always used ideas of Canada-as-North to promote a distinct national identity and national unity. In a penultimate chapter - The North Writes Back - Grace presents newly emerging northern voices and shows how they view the long tradition of representing the North by southern activists, artists, and scholars." "With the recent creation of Nunavut, increasing concern about northern ecosystems and social challenges, and renewed attention to Canada's role as a circumpolar nation, Canada and the Idea of North shows that nordicity still plays an urgent and central role in Canada at the start of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ideas of North -- Writing the North -- Articulating North -- Narrating a Northern nation -- The North writes back -- Magnetic North.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-331) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 341 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0773522476".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Canada (Nord)".
- catalog spatial "Canada, Northern In art.".
- catalog spatial "Canada, Northern In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Canada, Northern.".
- catalog subject "971 21".
- catalog subject "Canada (Nord) dans l'art.".
- catalog subject "Canada (Nord) dans la littérature.".
- catalog subject "Canadiens.".
- catalog subject "F1090.5 .G725 2001".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, Canadian.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ideas of North -- Writing the North -- Articulating North -- Narrating a Northern nation -- The North writes back -- Magnetic North.".
- catalog title "Canada and the idea of north / Sherrill E. Grace.".
- catalog type "Art. fast".
- catalog type "text".