Sharing the Past
The Reinvention of History in Canadian Poetry Since 1960
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2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0104-4 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0104-4 (ISBN)
Sharing the Past examines the ways in which Canadian poets collaboratively nurtured the rise of social history as a discipline of historical study.
Sharing the Past is an unprecedentedly detailed account of the intertwining discourses of Canadian history and creative literature. When social history emerged as its own field of study in the 1960s, it promised new stories that would bring readers away from the elite writing of academics and closer to the everyday experiences of people. Yet, the academy’s continued emphasis on professional distance and objectivity made it difficult for historians to connect with the experiences of those about whom they wrote, and those same emphases made it all but impossible for non-academic experts to be institutionally recognized as historians.
Drawing on interviews and new archival materials to construct a history of Canadian poetry written since 1960, Sharing the Past argues that the project of social history has achieved its fullest expression in lyric poetry, a genre in which personal experiences anchor history. Developing this genre since 1960, Canadian poets have provided an inclusive model for a truly social history that indiscriminately shares the right to speak authoritatively of the past.
Sharing the Past is an unprecedentedly detailed account of the intertwining discourses of Canadian history and creative literature. When social history emerged as its own field of study in the 1960s, it promised new stories that would bring readers away from the elite writing of academics and closer to the everyday experiences of people. Yet, the academy’s continued emphasis on professional distance and objectivity made it difficult for historians to connect with the experiences of those about whom they wrote, and those same emphases made it all but impossible for non-academic experts to be institutionally recognized as historians.
Drawing on interviews and new archival materials to construct a history of Canadian poetry written since 1960, Sharing the Past argues that the project of social history has achieved its fullest expression in lyric poetry, a genre in which personal experiences anchor history. Developing this genre since 1960, Canadian poets have provided an inclusive model for a truly social history that indiscriminately shares the right to speak authoritatively of the past.
J.A. Weingarten is a professor in the School of Language and Liberal Studies at Fanshawe College.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Al Purdy’s Modern Skepticism
Developing a Lyric Historiography
Lyric and Regionalism: Challenging Histories Part 1
The Métis Uprisings: Challenging Histories Part 2
Inheriting the Past
The "Edge of the Photograph": Developmental Long Poems
Sharing Authority
Figurative Families and Feminism
Indigeneity and Performance: The Fictions of Nations
The Future of History
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.08.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 620 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0104-8 / 1487501048 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0104-4 / 9781487501044 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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