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Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance
  • Language: en

Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-05-23
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A study of the performance and circulation of the figure of Salome as it shaped the modern business of skin-baring dance in imperial Europe and settler colonial North America at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

Growing a Race
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 185

Growing a Race

Cecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada. In a critical study of Painted Fires, the Pearlie Watson books, and several short stories, Devereux attempts to understand McClung's fiction in terms of its engagement with a politics of "race" and nation and constructions of specifically "racial" impurities that many women saw themselves as uniquely able to "cure."

ReCalling Early Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

ReCalling Early Canada

ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WWI. Reflecting an emerging critical interest in the literary past, the authors seek to retrieve the early repertoire available to Canadian readers-fiction and poetry certainly, but family letters, photographs, journalism, and captivity narratives are also investigated. Filling a significant gap in Canadian criticism, the authors demonstrate that to recall the past is not only to shape it, but also to reshape the present. This fresh interest in the cultural past, informed by new approaches to historical inquiry, has resulted in a unique and diverse investigation of more than two centuries of a little known "early Canada."

Painted Fires
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Painted Fires

Painted Fires, first published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung’s social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman suffrage, and immigration policies that favour cultural assimilation. In her afterword, Cecily Devereux situates Painted Fires in the context of McClung’s feminist fiction and her interest in contemporary questions of immigration and “naturalization.” She also considers how McClung’s representation of Helmi Milander’s story draws on popular culture narratives.

Women and Empire, 1750-1939, Vol. V
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Women and Empire, 1750-1939, Vol. V

First published in 2008. This is Volume V of Women and Empire, 1750-1939 a series on Primary Sources on Gender and Anglo-Imperialism, and is a collection of women’s writing in and on Canada as a space of the British Empire.

Growing a Race
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Growing a Race

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-02-06
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  • Publisher: MQUP

Cecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada. In a critical study of Painted Fires, the Pearlie Watson books, and several short stories, Devereux attempts to understand McClung's fiction in terms of its engagement with a politics of "race" and nation and constructions of specifically "racial" impurities that many women saw themselves as uniquely able to "cure."

Windows and Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Windows and Words

Windows and Words is a collection of seventeen essays that confirms and celebrates the artistry of Canadian Children's Literature. There are essays that survey a wealth of English language fiction, from the internationally acclaimed work of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the aboriginal adolescent novel, to the increasingly multi-cultural character of children's books. Others examine book illustration, visual literacy, and the creative partnership seen in the picture book and its art design. With contributions by two Governor General's Award winning authors, Janet Lunn and Tim Wynne-Jones, and a final commentary by Elizabeth Waterson, the heart of this collection offers a unique perspective on the artistry of writing for children and claims a rightful place for Canadian children's literature as literature.

The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery

Who ultimately is L.M. Montgomery, and why was there such an obsession with secrecy, hiding, and encoding in her life and fiction? Delving into the hidden life of Canada's most enigmatic writer, The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery answers these questions. The eleven essays illuminate Montgomery's personal writings and photographic self-portraits and probe the ways in which she actively shaped her life as a work of art. This is the first book to investigate Montgomery's personal writings, which filled thousands of pages in journals and a memoir, correspondence, scrapbooks, and photography. Using theories of autobiography and life writing, the essays probe the author's flair for the dramatic ...

Anne Around the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Anne Around the World

New perspectives on the literary classic that enchants and engages readers across times and cultures.

The L.M. Montgomery Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

The L.M. Montgomery Reader

"This second volume narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery{u2019}s (1874{u2013}1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since her death. It traces milestones and turning points such as adaptations for stage and screen, posthumous publications, and the development of Montgomery Studies as a scholarly field"--From publisher description.