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Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume Melnyk and Coates continue the project of scholarly analysis of Alberta literature that they began with Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (2009). They argue that the essays in their new book confirm that Alberta's literary identity is historically contingent with a diverse, changing content, that makes its definition a work-in-progress.
The essays in this volume provide contemporary perspectives on major figures in poetry and fiction, such as Robert Kroetsch, Sheila Watson, Alice Major, and Fred Stenson. Other essays bring to light relatively unknown figures such as the Serbian Canadian writer David Albahari and the pioneer clergyman Nestor Dmytrow.
Writing Alberta offers a detailed discussion of contemporary Indigenous writers, an overview of Alberta historiography of the past century, and the fascinating autobiographical reflections of the novelist Katherine Govier on her literary career and its Alberta influences. This Collection demonstrates that Alberta writers, especially in the contemporary period, are not afraid to uncover, re-think, and re-imagine parts of Alberta history, thereby exposing what had been lain to rest as an unfinished business needing serious re-consideration.
Contents
Introduction
Writing Alberta: Continuities, Interventions, and Lacunae
George Melnyk and Donna Coates
Chapter 1. My Alberta Home
Katherine Govier
Chapter 2. ""My Bones Have Known this Land Long Before Alberta Was Born"": Intersection in Indigenous Geography and Creative Expression
Tasha Hubbard
Chapter 3. Strategies for Storying the Terrible Truth in John Estacio's and John Murrell's Filumena and Betty Jane Hegerat's the Boy
Tamara Palmer Seiler
Chapter 4. Alberta's Environmental Janus: Andrew Nikiforuk and Chris TurnerGeo Takach
Chapter 5. Alberta in the Alberta Novels of David Albahari
George Melnyk
Chapter 6. Science and the City: The Poetics of Alice Major's Edmonton
Neil Querengesser
Chapter 7. Double Vision in Betty Lambert's Jennie's Story
Cynthia Zimmerman
Chapter 8. Seeing Seeing, and Telling Telling: Framing and Transparency in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K. and James Turrell's ""Twilight Art""
Harry Vandervlist
Chapter 9. The Mythological and the Real: Sheila Watson's Life and Writing
Joseph Pivato
Chapter 10. Gwen Pharis Ringwood and Elsie Park Gowan: Writing the Land, 1933-1979
Moria Day
Chapter 11. Writing Alberta's History
R. Douglas Francis
Chapter 12. Fin de Siècle Lunacy in Fred Stenson's The Great Karoo
Donna Coates
Chapter 13. The ""Father"" of Ukrainian-language Fiction and Nonfiction in Alberta: Rev. Nestor Dmytrow, 1863-1925
Jars Balan
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