Catching the Torch

Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Canadian, Nonfiction, History, Military, World War I
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Author: Neta Gordon ISBN: 9781554589869
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Publication: March 25, 2014
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Language: English
Author: Neta Gordon
ISBN: 9781554589869
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication: March 25, 2014
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Language: English

Chapter Four

"Other Canadians: The representation of alternate versions of the Canadian War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us"

Neta Gordon

Gordon examines portrayals of the myth of the Canadian collective. Thiessen's Vimy (2007) depicts diversity and tolerance as culminating in a narrative that undermines cultural specificity, while Kerr's Unity (1918) (2002) suggests that only deaths that can be situated within a collective sacrificial narrative are deemed significant. Boyden's Three Day Road (2005) explores the way stories of a previously marginalized community can be productively written into a living history, while Poliquin's A Secret Between Us (2007), takes up the subject of "other Canadians" to query whether historical remembrance serves any real political purpose.

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Chapter Four

"Other Canadians: The representation of alternate versions of the Canadian War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us"

Neta Gordon

Gordon examines portrayals of the myth of the Canadian collective. Thiessen's Vimy (2007) depicts diversity and tolerance as culminating in a narrative that undermines cultural specificity, while Kerr's Unity (1918) (2002) suggests that only deaths that can be situated within a collective sacrificial narrative are deemed significant. Boyden's Three Day Road (2005) explores the way stories of a previously marginalized community can be productively written into a living history, while Poliquin's A Secret Between Us (2007), takes up the subject of "other Canadians" to query whether historical remembrance serves any real political purpose.

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