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Divided Highways: Road Narrative and Nationhood in Canada by Heather Macfarlane 9780776627731

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The road trip genre, well established in the literatures of Canada, is a natural outcome of the nation's obsession with geography. Divided Highways examines road narratives by Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois and Indigenous authors and the sense of place and nationhood in these communities. Geography describes the land, and history peoples it, just as memories connect us to place. This is why road trips are such a feature of writing in Canada, allowing the travellers to claim, at least symbolically, the terrain they have traversed. Macfarlane examines works by a variety of writers from each of these communities, including Gilles Archambault, Jeannette Armstrong, Jill Frayne, Tomson Highway, Claude Jasmin, Robert Kroetsch, Jacques Poulin, Aritha van Herk and Paul Villeneuve, to name but a few. Studying a diversity of road narratives from Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois and Indigenous populations not only demonstrates the existence of a very specific road genre, but is also revelatory of very diverse and often conflicting perceptions of nationhood. It is these expressions of sovereignty that are integral to ongoing discussions of reconciliation and decolonization. This book is published in English. - Cet ouvrage etudie l'existence et la tradition du roman de la route au Canada. La geographie decrit le territoire et l'histoire lui insuffle vie, tout comme les souvenirs sont des points d'attache a un lieu donne. Voila pourquoi les road trips ont une place privilegiee dans l'ecriture d'expression anglaise, francaise et autochtone du Canada : ils permettent aux voyageurs de revendiquer, du moins symboliquement, le terrain qu'ils ont couvert. C'est l'intersection de l'histoire et de la geographie qui confere toute sa signification a un voyage, qui alimente cet esprit des lieux, ou qui permet d'en constater l'absence. Les voyages sont revelateurs des interets propres aux trois groupes examines dans le cadre de cette etude. Le desir, et parfois la necessite, d'entreprendre un voyage, les compagnons de voyage ainsi que les destinations, de meme que l'histoire qui s'ecrit au fil des distances parcourues sont autant d'indicateurs de cette notion de l'espace et du concept de nation au sein du pays. Pour illustrer ce phenomene, ce livre examine des oeuvres litteraires d'une gamme d'ecrivains anglophones, quebecois et autochtones, dont Gilles Archambault, Jeannette Armstrong, Jill Frayne, Tomson Highway, Linda Hogan, Scott Gardiner, Claude Jasmin, Robert Kroetsch, Lee Maracle, Jacques Poulin, Aritha van Herk et Paul Villeneuve. L'approche comparative aux litteratures du Canada est le prolongement logique aux etudes postcoloniales dans la mesure ou elle revele les complexites de meme que les specificites de diverses communautes, contribuant ainsi a une meilleure comprehension de collectivites nationales. Elle propose, en outre, des histoires qui font le contrepoids aux etudes transnationales. Ce livre est publie en anglais.

Book Information
ISBN 9780776627731
Author Heather Macfarlane
Format Paperback
Page Count 178
Imprint University of Ottawa Press
Publisher University of Ottawa Press
Weight(grams) 204g

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