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Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader.

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader.(Book review)

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Donald Wright, ed. Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader. Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 2004. x + 570 pp. $76.60 paper.

"Where is here?" Robertson Davies famously asked of Canada. In Donald Wright's anthology of essays, speeches, and poetry, the reader is prompted to answer a different riddle: "What does it mean to be here?"

In 23 (often linked) chapters ranging from 25 to 30 pages each, and through the words of more than 65 contributors, Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader surveys a wide landscape of topics. Wright's omnibus includes expositions on the arts (EJ Pratt, Margaret Atwood, Evelyn Lau), culture (David Taras, Robertson Davies), ice hockey (Neil Earle on "our game"), history (Donald Creighton, Carl Berger), diversity (Thomas King, Michelle Lalonde), and political structure and process (Rene Levesque, Brian Mulroney). Liberally woven through the chapters are dialogues on a wide range of handy icons, including Laura Secord, Anne of Green Gables, Grey Owl, and Tom Thomson, and a gallery of iconoclasts who have attempted to (re)define the Canadian mystique--among them...

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