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Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity

Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity

Melnyk, George
Coates, Donna

Paperback

Series: West, Book 10

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1552388905
ISBN13: 9781552388907
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: Jun 2 2017
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.05 Depth: 8.78
Language: English

Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature.

In this volume Melnyk and Coates continue the project of scholarly analysis of Alberta literature that they began with Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature. They argue that the essays in their new book confirm that Alberta's literary identity is historically contingent with a diverse, changing content, that makes its definition a work-in-progress. The essays in this volume provide contemporary perspectives on major figures in poetry and fiction, such as Robert Kroetsch, Sheila Watson, Alice Major, and Fred Stenson. Other essays bring to light relatively unknown figures such as the Serbian Canadian writer David Albahari and the pioneer clergyman Nestor Dmytrow.

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