American Review of Canadian Studies articles from December 2001

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from December 2001

Western Mindscape.(Poem)
December 22, 2001... Western Mindscape Prairie rainstorm: Don't look now but I think I see a ship on the horizon. --Robert Kroetsch ROBERT KROETSCH is a novelist, poet, and essayist who taught for seventeen years at the University of Manitoba. He...

Editorial: Learning the Western Mindscape.(Editorial)
December 22, 2001... This issue of The American Review of Canadian Studies is a selection of papers presented at the third biennial ACSUS in Canada Colloquium. Held in Calgary, Alberta, on 15-16 September 2000, the topic for this colloquium was Western Mindscapes....

Regionalism, W. L. Morton, and the writing of western Canadian history, 1870-1885.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... In attempting to imagine and to define Canada--a persistent, almost obsessive, intellectual exercise among CANADIANS--analysts invariably come up against the question of regionalism. For regionalism has been a pervasive concept and factor in...

The Calgary cousinage of Restlessness.
December 22, 2001... I look for innovative ecstasies, ways of coming home, ways of decamping, ways to abandon the scene of uncommitted crimes. Rootless. Castaway. Robinson Crusoe without an island, and certainly never with a Friday, eager to break the monotony....

An Innis, not a Turner.(analyzing the history of the Canadian and U.S. Wests)
December 22, 2001... Comparative Historiography of the Canadian and U.S. Wests The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development. Frederick Jackson Turner The...

Narrative geography in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... As Susan Stanford Friedman has pointed out in her critical study aptly titled Mappings (1998), interpretations of narrative have often subtly privileged temporal over spatial analysis. (1) In part, this inclination has been fostered by the...

From Riel to reform (and a little beyond): politics in western Canada.
December 22, 2001... The most interesting aspect of politics in western Canada is its tendency to generate new political parties. This has been going on for over a century and shows no signs of stopping, as illustrated by the success of the Saskatchewan Party in...

Western Mindscapes: a philosophical challenge.
December 22, 2001... The concept of a mindscape invites philosophical analysis. In the context of Canadian philosophy (see Armour and Trott, The Faces of Reason), such an analysis will be essentially dialectical. This approach finds its origins in the works of...

Coast/lines: or the perils of sailing home.(Excerpted from Sailing Home: A Journey Through Time, Place and Memory)(Excerpt)
December 22, 2001... Literature, Pablo Neruda insists, occurs where water meets the land. I have spent much of the last year reading some of the literature which has occurred at that dramatic intersection of land and water known as the west coast, as well as trying...

"Working" in the West: The Canadian Prairies as Playground in Late-Victorian Literature.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian literature, specifically fiction about the Canadian West, frequently had multiple national origins and audiences. Some fiction by Canadian authors was published solely in Canada; a good...