Recalling Early Canada Reading the Political in Literary And Cultural Production

When we call and recall early Canada what is it that we call upon?How does the very name we give it shape in advance what it is that we set out to recall?ReCalling Early Canada is the first book-length collection of essays to focus on Canadian literary and cultural production prior to WWI. While Canadian literature is often thought to have emerged in the mid twentieth century, the essays in this volume reflect a recent critical interest in earlier generations of cultural production.Taking seriously the project of recall, the essays here not only seek to deliver certain historical documents to the light of present-day critique, they also ask important theoretical and political questions about the various methodologies involved and the assumptions that accompany them.The authors do not limit their analyses to the standards of fiction and poetry_instead they welcome photographs, captivity narratives, family letters, and journalism as part of the repertoire of early Canadian readers.These essays combine a fresh interest in this burgeoning field of study with new approaches to historical inquiry. The result is a unique and diverse investigation of more than two centuries of a relatively unknown early Canada.Blair, Jennifer is the author of 'Recalling Early Canada Reading the Political in Literary And Cultural Production', published 2005 under ISBN 9780888644435 and ISBN 0888644434.