Downtown Canada : Writing Canadian Cities.

Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literature.

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Main Author: Edwards, Justin D.
Other Authors: Ivison, Douglas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014
Edition:2nd ed.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing Canadian Cities -- 'An Ordered Absence': Defeatured Topologies in Canadian Literature -- 'Orient Dreams': Urbanity and the Post-Confederation Literary Culture of Ottawa -- Post-colonial Historicity: Halifax, Region, and Empire in Barometer Rising and The Nymph and the Lamp -- La ville en vol/City in Flight: Tracing Lesbian E-Motion through Jovette Marchessault's Comme un enfant de la terre -- Cities and Classrooms, Bodies and Texts: Notes towards a Resident Reading (and Teaching) of Vancouver Writing -- Lost in the City: The Montreal Novels of Régine Robin and Robert Majzels -- Building and Living the Immigrant City: Michael Ondaatje's and Austin Clarke's Toronto -- Divided Cities, Divided Selves: Portraits of the Artist as Ambivalent Urban Hipster -- Rewriting White Flight: Suburbia in Gerald Lynch's Troutstream and Joan Barfoot's Dancing in the Dark -- Duelling and Dwelling in Toronto and London: Transnational Urbanism in Catherine Bush's The Rules of Engagement -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Contributors. 
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