Title New Brunswick at the crossroads : literary ferment and social change in the east / Tony Tremblay, editor

Published Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Loyalist literature in New Brunswick, 1783-1843 / Gwendolyn Davies -- Emergent Acadian nationalism, 1864-1955 / Chantal Richard -- The Fredericton confederation awakening, 1843-1900 / Thomas Hodd -- Mid-century emergent modernism, 1935-1955 / Tony Tremblay -- Modernity and the challenge of urbanity in Acadian literature, 1958-1999 / Marie-Linda Lord Summary What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these questions and explores the relationships between periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions of those times. The province's literature is ideally suited to such a study because of its bicultural character--in both English and French, periods of intense literary creativity occurred at different times and for different reasons. What emerges is a cultural geography in New Brunswick that has existed not in isolation from the rest of Canada but often at the creative forefront of imagined alternatives in identity and citizenship. At a time when cultural industries are threatened by forces that seek to negate difference and impose uniformity, New Brunswick at the Crossroads provides an understanding of the intersection of cultures and social economies, contributing to critical discussions about what constitutes "the creative" in Canadian society, especially in rural, non-central spaces like New Brunswick Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Canadian literature -- New Brunswick -- History and criticism Literature and society -- New Brunswick -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Canadian literature Literature and society Social conditions SUBJECT New Brunswick -- Social conditions Subject New Brunswick Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Tremblay, M. Anthony (Michael Anthony), 1962- author, editor ISBN 9781771122085 1771122080 9781771122092 1771122099 9781771122078 1771122072

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