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Inheriting a canoe paddle : the canoe in discourses of English-Canadian nationalism / Misao Dean.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442661752
  • 9781442661769
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV776 .I544 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
1 Inheriting a Literary Tradition: Paddling the Uncanny Canoe -- 2 Inheriting a Historiographic Tradition: Canada Is a Canoe Route -- 3 "The Anglo-Saxon idea of pleasure": Eric Morse and Recreational Wilderness Canoeing -- 4 The Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant as Historical Re-enactment -- 5 Reading/Writing the Wilderness Canoe Trip -- 6 Return to Eden: Bill Mason, Canoeing, and Environmentalism -- 7 Recapitulation: The Canadian Canoe Museum -- 8 Decolonizing the Canoe.
Summary: Annotation If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddlenbsp;looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification's unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with an engaging, personal style, it is both a scholarly examination and a personal reflection, delving into representations of canoes and canoeing in museum displays, historical re-enactments, travel narratives, the history of wilderness expeditions, artwork, film, and popular literature. Misao Dean opens the book with the story of inheriting her father's canoe paddle and goes on to explore the canoe paddle as a national symbol - integral to historical tales of exploration and trade, central to Pierre Trudeau's patriotism, and unique to Canadians wanting to distance themselves from British and American national myths. Throughout, Inheriting a Canoe Paddle emphasizes the importance of self-consciously evaluating the meaning we give to canoes as objects and to canoeing as an activity.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Inheriting a Canoe Paddle -- 1 Inheriting a Literary Tradition: Paddling the Uncanny Canoe -- 2 Inheriting a Historiographic Tradition: Canada Is a Canoe Route -- 3 "The Anglo-Saxon idea of pleasure": Eric Morse and Recreational Wilderness Canoeing -- 4 The Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant as Historical Re-enactment -- 5 Reading/Writing the Wilderness Canoe Trip -- 6 Return to Eden: Bill Mason, Canoeing, and Environmentalism -- 7 Recapitulation: The Canadian Canoe Museum -- 8 Decolonizing the Canoe.

Annotation If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddlenbsp;looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification's unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with an engaging, personal style, it is both a scholarly examination and a personal reflection, delving into representations of canoes and canoeing in museum displays, historical re-enactments, travel narratives, the history of wilderness expeditions, artwork, film, and popular literature. Misao Dean opens the book with the story of inheriting her father's canoe paddle and goes on to explore the canoe paddle as a national symbol - integral to historical tales of exploration and trade, central to Pierre Trudeau's patriotism, and unique to Canadians wanting to distance themselves from British and American national myths. Throughout, Inheriting a Canoe Paddle emphasizes the importance of self-consciously evaluating the meaning we give to canoes as objects and to canoeing as an activity.

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