TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keahey,Deborah Lou
TI  - Making it home: place in Canadian prairie literature 
SN  - 0887556566
AV  - PR9198.2.P68 K42 1998eb
U1  - 810.9/32712 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Winnipeg, Man.
PB  - University of Manitoba Press
KW  - Canadian literature
KW  - Prairie Provinces
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Place (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Home in literature
KW  - Setting (Literature)
KW  - Canadian literature (English)
KW  - Espace et temps (Littérature)
KW  - Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature
KW  - Foyer dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Prologue: Writing Home --; Introduction: Homemaking the Prairies --; 1; Imperial Inscriptions; Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese; Robert J.C. Stead's Grain; Kelly Rebar's Bordertown Cafe; Ian Ross's fare Wel --; 2; Relative Geographies; Kristjana Gunnars's Zero Hour; David Arnason's Marsh Burning; Laura Goodman Salverson's Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter --; 3; Centres of Gravity; Frederick Philip Grove's Over Prairie Trails; Lorna Crozier's Inventing the Hawk; Dennis Cooley's this only home --; 4; Displacement and Replacement; Emma Lee Warrior's "Compatriots"; Maria Campbell's: Halfbreed; Rudy Wiebe's: Peace Shall Destroy Many; Uma Parameswaran's: Trishanku --; 5; Placing the Self in Motion; Robert Kroetsch's Completed Field Notes; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Traditional approaches to Prairie literature have focussed on the significance of "the land" in attempts to make a place into a home. This emphasis on the importance of landscape as a defining and guiding feature for writers and their writing ignores the important roles played by influences brought to the land - history, culture, gender, ethnicity, religion, community, family, and occupation. Deborah Keahey considers over seventy years of Canadian Prairie literature, including poetry, autobiography, drama, and fiction, from seventeen writers, ranging from the well-established, like Martha Ostenso and Robert Kroetsch, to newer writers, like Ian Ross and Kelly Rebar
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