Canoe nation : nature, race, and the making of a Canadian icon /
More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, the canoe has come to be a symbol of Canada itself. In Canoe Nation, Bruce Erickson chronicles the story of the canoe in the Canadian imagination. He argues that the canoe's sentimental power has come about through a set of narratives that...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
©2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Canoeing matters
- Introduction: Canoes and the nature of Canada
- Pedagogical canoes: "Forced intimacy," suffering, and remembering National history
- I fish, therefore I am: Recreational canoeing and wilderness travel at the turn of the century
- Regimes of whiteness: Wilderness and the production of abstract space for Seton to Grey Owl
- Recreational nationalism: Canoeing as political activism
- Conclusion: Future politics and the production of the nation.