Catching the Torch
Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Canadian, Nonfiction, History, Military, World War I
| Author: | Neta Gordon | ISBN: | 9781554589869 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Publication: | March 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Neta Gordon |
| ISBN: | 9781554589869 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Publication: | March 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Language: | English |
Chapter Four
"Other Canadians: The representation of alternate versions of the Canadian War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us"
Neta Gordon
Gordon examines portrayals of the myth of the Canadian collective. Thiessen's Vimy (2007) depicts diversity and tolerance as culminating in a narrative that undermines cultural specificity, while Kerr's Unity (1918) (2002) suggests that only deaths that can be situated within a collective sacrificial narrative are deemed significant. Boyden's Three Day Road (2005) explores the way stories of a previously marginalized community can be productively written into a living history, while Poliquin's A Secret Between Us (2007), takes up the subject of "other Canadians" to query whether historical remembrance serves any real political purpose.
Chapter Four
"Other Canadians: The representation of alternate versions of the Canadian War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us"
Neta Gordon
Gordon examines portrayals of the myth of the Canadian collective. Thiessen's Vimy (2007) depicts diversity and tolerance as culminating in a narrative that undermines cultural specificity, while Kerr's Unity (1918) (2002) suggests that only deaths that can be situated within a collective sacrificial narrative are deemed significant. Boyden's Three Day Road (2005) explores the way stories of a previously marginalized community can be productively written into a living history, while Poliquin's A Secret Between Us (2007), takes up the subject of "other Canadians" to query whether historical remembrance serves any real political purpose.
