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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.5409321732
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0802087205 9781442674059
- LCCN
- PR9185.5.C57
- LCCN Item number
- D69 2005eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 227 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600929 (OCoLC)244768746 (CaOOCEL)419018
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction: Writing Canadian Cities 12
- ‘An Ordered Absence’: Defeatured Topologies in Canadian Literature 23
- ‘Orient Dreams’: Urbanity and the Post-Confederation Literary Culture of Ottawa 41
- Post-colonial Historicity: Halifax, Region, and Empire in Barometer Rising and The Nymph and the Lamp 59
- La ville en vol/City in Flight: Tracing Lesbian E-Motion through Jovette Marchessault’s Comme un enfant de la terre 74
- Cities and Classrooms, Bodies and Texts: Notes towards a Resident Reading (and Teaching) of Vancouver Writing 87
- Lost in the City: The Montreal Novels of Régine Robin and Robert Majzels 113
- Building and Living the Immigrant City: Michael Ondaatje’s and Austin Clarke’s Toronto 131
- Divided Cities, Divided Selves: Portraits of the Artist as Ambivalent Urban Hipster 151
- Rewriting White Flight: Suburbia in Gerald Lynch’s Troutstream and Joan Barfoot’s Dancing in the Dark 175
- Duelling and Dwelling in Toronto and London: Transnational Urbanism in Catherine Bush’s The Rules of Engagement 192
- Epilogue 206
- Works Cited 218
- Contributors 234
