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Iconic North Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada

Sangster Joan
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774831833
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
710 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
400

Forfatter
Sangster Joan

Om bidragsyterne

Joan Sangster is a historian who teaches gender and women’s studies at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has held visiting fellowships at McGill, Duke, and Princeton universities. She is the author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada; Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada; Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law, Ontario 1920–60; Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920–1960; and Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920–60. A retrospective collection of her essays, Through Feminist Eyes: Essays in Canadian Women’s History, was published in 2012.

Iconic North Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada

Sangster Joan
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
Sangster Joan
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
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<em>The Iconic North</em> brings fresh insight and evidence of what these images tell us about how post-war Canada saw the North: as its own colonial other.

- Renee Hulan, Canadian Historical Review

“Sangster … is not the first to focus on the North and its place in the Canadian identity, but her effort must be celebrated because it is so candid.” Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and up.

- J. S. Krysiek, Gettysburg College, CHOICE

<p>This book fills an important gap in the field of Canadian cultural history.</p>

- Robyn Schwarz, Western University, British Journal of Canadian Studies

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What makes Joan Sangster’s <em>The Iconic North</em> stand out is the way she links so many cultural forms – television and film, novels, periodicals, report and travel writing – with the political economy of northern development in post-war Canada. Though Sangster’s reading of these works is skillful, this is not a study in discourse analysis. Rather it is a richly contextualized interpretation that makes clear how cultural constructions of the North served to legitimate, justify, and explain internal colonialism.

- Mary-Ellen Kelm, Simon Fraser University, Canadian Journal of History

<p>Few authors possess the skill to take an everyday image and turn it just slightly, in <em>Twilight Zone</em> fashion, to reveal a startling and intriguing truth. Professor Joan Sangster of Trent University does just that in <em>The Iconic North</em>. To read Sangster’s account is to question every common media depiction of the Arctic.</p>

- Holly Doan, Blacklock’s Reporter

Recent archaeological discoveries in the polar region have reanimated stock images of the intrepid explorer who braves the elements to bring modernity to a frigid northern wasteland. The Iconic North reveals that ideological assumptions, economic priorities, and a shift in government strategy in the postwar era all influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. Whether it was film, television, or women’s autobiographies, the “primitive” North was often portrayed as the mirror opposite to the “modern” South.In crisp and elegant prose, Joan Sangster redirects current debates about the geopolitical prospects of the North by addressing how women and gender relations have played a key role in the history of northern development.Drawing on archival and cultural sources, Sangster shows how gender, race, and colonialism shape our understanding of northern peoples, economies, and government policy. This work reveals how assumptions about both Indigenous and non-Indigenous women shaped gender, class, and political relationships in the circumpolar north – a region now commanding more of the world’s attention.
Les mer
The Iconic North explores how the “modern” South crafted cultural images of a “primitive” North that reflected its own preconceived notions and social, political, and economic interests.
Introduction1 Narrating the North: Sojourning Women and Travel Writing2 The Beaver: Northern Indigenous Life in Popular Education3 North of Schamattawa: “Indians,” “Eskimos,” and RCMP4 NFB Documentary, Indigenous Peoples, and Canadian Northern Policy5 Irene Baird’s Northern Journeys6 “Mrs. Bird Flies North”: The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in the NorthConclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
Les mer
Given the current geopolitical struggles over the future of the North, this is a timely sophisticated intervention in debates in the field of Aboriginal and colonial history in Canada and internationally.
Les mer
Explores how the “modern” South crafted cultural images of a “primitive” North that reflected its own preconceived notions and social, political, and economic interests.

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<em>The Iconic North</em> brings fresh insight and evidence of what these images tell us about how post-war Canada saw the North: as its own colonial other.

- Renee Hulan, Canadian Historical Review

“Sangster … is not the first to focus on the North and its place in the Canadian identity, but her effort must be celebrated because it is so candid.” Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and up.

- J. S. Krysiek, Gettysburg College, CHOICE

<p>This book fills an important gap in the field of Canadian cultural history.</p>

- Robyn Schwarz, Western University, British Journal of Canadian Studies

Se alle

What makes Joan Sangster’s <em>The Iconic North</em> stand out is the way she links so many cultural forms – television and film, novels, periodicals, report and travel writing – with the political economy of northern development in post-war Canada. Though Sangster’s reading of these works is skillful, this is not a study in discourse analysis. Rather it is a richly contextualized interpretation that makes clear how cultural constructions of the North served to legitimate, justify, and explain internal colonialism.

- Mary-Ellen Kelm, Simon Fraser University, Canadian Journal of History

<p>Few authors possess the skill to take an everyday image and turn it just slightly, in <em>Twilight Zone</em> fashion, to reveal a startling and intriguing truth. Professor Joan Sangster of Trent University does just that in <em>The Iconic North</em>. To read Sangster’s account is to question every common media depiction of the Arctic.</p>

- Holly Doan, Blacklock’s Reporter

Recent archaeological discoveries in the polar region have reanimated stock images of the intrepid explorer who braves the elements to bring modernity to a frigid northern wasteland. The Iconic North reveals that ideological assumptions, economic priorities, and a shift in government strategy in the postwar era all influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. Whether it was film, television, or women’s autobiographies, the “primitive” North was often portrayed as the mirror opposite to the “modern” South.In crisp and elegant prose, Joan Sangster redirects current debates about the geopolitical prospects of the North by addressing how women and gender relations have played a key role in the history of northern development.Drawing on archival and cultural sources, Sangster shows how gender, race, and colonialism shape our understanding of northern peoples, economies, and government policy. This work reveals how assumptions about both Indigenous and non-Indigenous women shaped gender, class, and political relationships in the circumpolar north – a region now commanding more of the world’s attention.
Les mer
The Iconic North explores how the “modern” South crafted cultural images of a “primitive” North that reflected its own preconceived notions and social, political, and economic interests.
Introduction1 Narrating the North: Sojourning Women and Travel Writing2 The Beaver: Northern Indigenous Life in Popular Education3 North of Schamattawa: “Indians,” “Eskimos,” and RCMP4 NFB Documentary, Indigenous Peoples, and Canadian Northern Policy5 Irene Baird’s Northern Journeys6 “Mrs. Bird Flies North”: The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in the NorthConclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
Les mer
Given the current geopolitical struggles over the future of the North, this is a timely sophisticated intervention in debates in the field of Aboriginal and colonial history in Canada and internationally.
Les mer
Explores how the “modern” South crafted cultural images of a “primitive” North that reflected its own preconceived notions and social, political, and economic interests.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774831833
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
710 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
400

Forfatter
Sangster Joan

Om bidragsyterne

Joan Sangster is a historian who teaches gender and women’s studies at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she has held visiting fellowships at McGill, Duke, and Princeton universities. She is the author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada; Girl Trouble: Female Delinquency in English Canada; Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law, Ontario 1920–60; Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920–1960; and Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920–60. A retrospective collection of her essays, Through Feminist Eyes: Essays in Canadian Women’s History, was published in 2012.

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