Canada And The Idea Of North
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Canada And The Idea Of North
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Author : Sherrill E Grace
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2002-04-15
Canada And The Idea Of North written by Sherrill E Grace and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-15 with History categories.
Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, 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.
Canada And The Idea Of North
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Author : Sherrill Grace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Canada And The Idea Of North written by Sherrill Grace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
A comprehensive overview of the role of the idea of North in Canadian thought, art, and popular culture.
The Idea Of North
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Author : Peter Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2005-04-15
The Idea Of North written by Peter Davidson and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
North is the point we look for on a map to orient ourselves. It is also the direction taken throughout history by the adventurous, the curious, the solitary, and the foolhardy. Based in the North himself, Peter Davidson, in The Idea of North, explores the very concept of "north" through its many manifestations in painting, legend, and literature. Tracing a northbound route from rural England—whose mild climate keeps it from being truly northern—to the wind-shorn highlands of Scotland, then through Scandinavia and into the desolate, icebound Arctic Circle, Davidson takes the reader on a journey from the heart of society to its most far-flung outposts. But we never fully leave civilization behind; rather, it is our companion on his alluring ramble through the north in art and story. Davidson presents a north that is haunted by Moomintrolls and the ghosts of long-lost Arctic explorers but at the same time, somehow, home to the fragile beauty of a Baltic midsummer evening. He sets the Icelandic Sagas, Nabokov's snowy fictional kingdom of Zembla, and Hans Christian Andersen's cryptic, forbidding Snow Queen alongside the works of such artists as Eric Ravilious, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Andy Goldsworthy, demonstrating how each illuminates a different facet of humanity's relationship to the earth's most dangerous and austere terrain. Through the lens of Davidson's easy erudition and astonishing range of reference, we come to see that the north is more a goal than a place, receding always before us, just over the horizon, past the last town, off the edge of the map. True north may be unreachable, but The Idea of North brings intrepid readers closer than ever before.
The Idea Of North
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Author : Peter Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2005-04-15
The Idea Of North written by Peter Davidson and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-15 with Art categories.
An exploration of how "north" has been represented in art and literature.
Northern Experience And The Myths Of Canadian Culture
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Author : Renée Hulan
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2002
Northern Experience And The Myths Of Canadian Culture written by Renée Hulan and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture Renée Hulan disputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, she challenges the epistemology used to support this idea. By investigating mutually dependent categories of identity in literature that depicts northern peoples and places, Hulan provides a descriptive account of representative genres in which the north figures as a central theme - including autobiography, adventure narrative, ethnography, fiction, poetry, and travel writing. She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed, indigenous peoples. Reading against the background of contemporary ethnographic, literary, and cultural theory, Hulan maintains that the collective Canadian identity idealized in many works representing the north does not occur naturally but is artificially constructed in terms of characteristics inflected by historically contingent ideas of gender and race, such as self-sufficiency, independence, and endurance, and that these characteristics are evoked to justify the nationhood of the Canadian state.
Hinterland Remixed
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Author : Andrew Burke
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2019-11-06
Hinterland Remixed written by Andrew Burke and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-06 with Social Science categories.
Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory. Though the decade often feels lost to history, Hinterland Remixed focuses on boldly innovative works as well as popular film, television, and music to show that Canada never fully left the 1970s behind. Andrew Burke reveals how contemporary artists and filmmakers have revisited the era's cinematic and televisual residues to uncover what has been lost over the years. Investigating how the traces of an analogue past circulate in a digital age, Burke digs through the remnants of 1970s Canadiana and examines key audiovisual works from this overlooked decade, uncovering the period's aspirations, desires, fears, and anxieties. He then looks to contemporary projects that remix, remediate, and reanimate the period. Exploring an idiosyncratic selection of works – from Michael Snow's experimental landscape film La Région Centrale, to SCTV's satirical skewering of network television, to L'Atelier national du Manitoba's video lament for the Winnipeg Jets – this book asks key questions about nation, nostalgia, media, and memory. A timely intervention, Hinterland Remixed demands we recognize the ways in which the unrealized cultural ambitions and unresolved anxieties of a previous decade continue to resonate in our current lives.
Writing The Northland
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Author : Barbara Stefanie Giehmann
language : en
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Release Date : 2011
Writing The Northland written by Barbara Stefanie Giehmann and has been published by Königshausen & Neumann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Alaska categories.
Idea Of North
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Idea Of North written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art, Modern categories.
"On Saturday, February 22, ten artists will put on their parkas and come together on a frozen river. In a season when most are hibernating these artists will engage in conversation and collaboration. Idea of North takes its title and inspiration from the first installment of Glenn Gould’s The Solitude Trilogy, a collection of documentaries that turned radio into art. In an exploration of Canada’s greatest white, white extreme north Gould weaves together a soundscape of various monologues from people who have chosen to live beyond our conventional borders. Our iteration of Idea of North poses that removing yourself from a center does not equal removing yourself from culture. The artists will come together in pairs, each pair realizing an ephemeral work in a smelt fishing shack. This temporal community will serve as a celebration of how artistic ideas flourish within our frozen north." -- ICA website, viewed October 27, 2023.
The Idea Of North
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Author : Rhonda Corvese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Idea Of North written by Rhonda Corvese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Installations (Art) categories.
"The Idea of North is a three-part exhibition of contemporary art from Canada, Iceland, Norway and Sweden that addresses the concept of locality of sound."--Page [3].
The North American Idea
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Author : Robert A. Pastor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-21
The North American Idea written by Robert A. Pastor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-21 with Political Science categories.
In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, increasing its share of the world economy. In 2001, however, North America peaked. Since then, trade has slowed among the three, manufacturing has shrunk, and illegal migration and drug-related violence have soared. At the same time, Europe caught up, and China leaped ahead. In The North American Idea, eminent scholar and policymaker Robert A. Pastor explains that NAFTA's mandate was too limited to address the new North American agenda. Instead of offering bold initiatives like a customs union to expand trade, leaders of the three nations thought small. Interest groups stalemated the small ideas while inhibiting the bolder proposals, and the governments accomplished almost nothing. To overcome this resistance and reinvigorate the continent, the leaders need to start with an idea based on a principle of interdependence. Pastor shows how this idea--once woven into the national consciousness of the three countries--could mobilize public support for continental solutions to problems like infrastructure and immigration that have confounded each nation working on its own. Providing essential historical context and challenging readers to view the continent in a new way, The North American Idea combines an expansive vision with a detailed blueprint for a more integrated, dynamic, and equitable North America.