An edition of Town life (1995)

Town life

Main Street and the evolution of small town Alberta, 1880-1947

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An edition of Town life (1995)

Town life

Main Street and the evolution of small town Alberta, 1880-1947

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In an entertaining re-examination of Rudy Wiebe's major novels, Penny van Toorn presents a completely new way of reading one of Canada's foremost contemporary writers. She analyzes Wiebe's struggle to control the "socially contested territory" of language, and identifies the principles that underlie his complex narrative structures.

Along the way, she addresses broader issues such as the White writer's semiotic control over Native Peoples; theories of historiography; and questions pertaining to authority, appropriation, hybridity, translation, orality, and audience - all matters of particular relevance to Wiebe and other writers who have multiple cultural and linguistic affiliations.

Drawing on Wiebe's manuscript materials, her own interviews with him, and background information concerning Mennonite doctrines, history, and political values, Dr. van Toorn creates a fresh context in which to read Wiebe's novels, and gives the first real answer to his own famous question " Where is the voice coming from?"

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Pages
368

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Town life: Main Street and the evolution of small town Alberta, 1880-1947
1995, University of Alberta Press
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Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta,
January 1, 1995, The University of Alberta Press
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Cover of: Town Life
Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta, 1880-1947
1995, University of Alberta Press
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Edition Notes

Co-published by Alberta Community Development.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-357) and index.

Published in
Edmonton
Series
Alberta reflections

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 368 p. :
Number of pages
368

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15370739M
Internet Archive
townlifemainstre00phdd
ISBN 10
0888642687, 0888642652
LCCN
95910518, cn95910401, cn95910518
OCLC/WorldCat
33106720, 32741115
Library Thing
6000328
Goodreads
4155044
4109001

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