From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian IdentityRoutledge, 22.12.2010 - 216 Seiten As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to express the needs and desires of a new country. Children’s literature was one of the means through which this new voice found expression. Seen as a tool for both entertaining and educating children, this material is often overtly propagandistic and nationalistic, and addresses some of the key political, economic, and social concerns of Canada as it struggled to maintain national unity during this time. From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood studies a large variety of children’s literature written in English between 1867 and 1911, revealing a distinct interest in questions of national unity and identity among children’s writers of the day and exploring the influence of American and British authors on the shaping of Canadian identity. The visions of Canada expressed in this material are often in competition with one another, but together they illuminate the country’s attempts to define itself and its relation to the world outside its borders. |
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... Canadian Confederation. Canada has subsequently undergone changes in size ... writers alike (Bailey 1972: 59). As Carole Gerson has observed: “The motives ... writers were keenly aware of the relationship between literature and nation ...
Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity Elizabeth Galway. literature produced in Canada ... writers did not show the urge towards national self-definition that is so evident in their American counterparts” (1988: 20).
... Canadian literary voice were apparent in the literature for adults and children alike, and many nineteenth-century authors recognised the connection between literature and patriotic propaganda. At the end of the nineteenth century, writers ...
Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity Elizabeth Galway. Federation, conceives of Canada ... writers were in fact laying claim to a new national culture, and were ... Canadian writers of the nineteenth century ...
Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity Elizabeth Galway. reflect fantasies of childhood; it served as a means by which idealised fantasies of Canadian nationhood and identity could be played out. Writers were ...
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Canadian Regionalism | |
America and Canada | |
The Figure of the French Canadian | |
The Figure of the Indian | |
The Making of Canadian History | |
Landscape and Environment | |
Conclusion | |
Index | |
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