Main entry:

Wetherell, Donald G. (Donald Grant), 1949-

Title & Author:

Town life : Main Street and the evolution of small town Alberta, 1880-1947 / Donald G. Wetherell, Irene R.A. Kmet.

Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, ©1995.

Description:

xix, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Alberta reflections

Notes:
Co-published by Alberta Community Development.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Politics of Narrative Practice -- 2. Peace Shall Destroy Many: Breaking Open the Capsule -- 3. First and Vital Candle: Beyond Polyphony -- 4. The Blue Mountains of China: History as Inadvertent Confession -- 5. The Temptations of the Big Bear: Redeeming Canada's Past -- 6. The Scorched-Wood People: Freed into Certain Bondage -- 7. My Lovely Enemy: The Beloved Familiar and the Beloved New -- 8. Where is Your Voice Coming From, Rudy Wiebe? -- Appendix: The Early History and Doctrines of the Mennonite Church.

Summary:

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?"

ISBN:

0888642652
9780888642653
0888642687
9780888642684
1417591293
9781417591299

Subject:

Cities and towns Alberta History.
Small cities Alberta History.
Petites villes Alberta Histoire.
Villes Alberta Histoire.
Small cities
Cities and towns
Social conditions
Kleinstadt
Stadtentwicklung
Alberta Social conditions.
Northwest Territories History 1870-1905.
Alberta History 1905-
Territoires du Nord-Ouest Histoire 1870-1905.
Alberta Histoire 1905-
Alberta Conditions sociales.
Alberta

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Kmet, Irene, 1950-
Alberta. Alberta Community Development.
Alberta reflections.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 108266
Call No.: ID HT384.C3 A4 CAN; ID:96-B1252
Status: Available