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Historical Fiction

Retrieved from: http://www.mysterescanadiens.ca/blooden.html. Historical Fiction. ‘Making and Remaking the Past’ Dr. Wendy Donawa Reading Canada Dr. Leah C. Fowler. SECTION II. ‘The Past is a Foreign Country’. ‘Psycho-geography’ .

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Historical Fiction

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  1. Retrieved from: http://www.mysterescanadiens.ca/blooden.html Historical Fiction ‘Making and Remaking the Past’ Dr. Wendy Donawa Reading Canada Dr. Leah C. Fowler

  2. SECTION II ‘The Past is a Foreign Country’

  3. ‘Psycho-geography’ • One way to anchor interest in the period setting is to focus on the small human events, emphasizing both what is different and what is the same. • Different: • clothes, • food, and; • technology. • Same: • adolescents’ emotional needs, and; • a world controlled by adults.

  4. The Crazy Man (2005) by Pamela Porter • This text devolves upon the large custodial institutions for the mentally ill and developmentally delayed that still functioned in the mid-1960s. • The novel, set in a small Saskatchewan farming community, also evokes the mindset of the times: the ignorance, fear, and aversion as common responses to mental illness. Retrieved from: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page1422.aspx

  5. The Crazy Man can be examined with Out of the Dust (1997) by Karen Hesse Who Has Seen the Wind? (1947, 1991) by W.O. Mitchell Retrieved from: http://childrensbookalmanac.com/2011/03/out-of-the-dust/ Retrieved from: http://hungrylikethewoolf.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/who-has-seen-the-wind-by-w-o-mitchell/ All three books are coming-of-age stories whose sensitive protagonists lose a parent and live in economically depressed farming/prairie communities as they attempt to make meaning of misfortunes.

  6. Retrieved from: http://www.glennsglobalgames.com/main.php?/categories/25-Oilers II.A. Representing Canada in fictional series and overviews

  7. Penguin’s Our Canadian Girl Series • backgrounds include: • the Black Loyalists’ flight from slavery to Nova Scotia, • a Métis buffalo hunt, • the 1885 Montreal smallpox epidemic, • the Caribou gold fields, • the Depression in Vancouver, and; • the dilemma of a Jewish girl in World War II. Retrieved from: http://intouchclubpenguin.blogspot.com/2010/07/happy-canada-day.html

  8. Scholastic’s Dear Canada Series • This series constructs varied historical settings through a diary format including: • many of Canada’s wars, rebellions, political/military and economic diaries, • fille du roi, • a daughter of a railway engineer, • a Home Child orphan, • an interned Ukrainian girl, and; • a Chinese girl whose family is separated by Canada’s Exclusion Act. Retrieved from: http://canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-10th-birthday-to-scholastics-dear.html

  9. Vancouver (Cruise & Griffith, 2003) • This series explores the historical, geographical and cultural information that covers 16 centuries of Vancouver’s history in twelve well-integrated individual stories. • These narratives move from the prehistoric past and early aboriginal cultures to a marooned Russian explorer, a gold-hunting Chinese immigrant, a whaler’s bride, and on into the modern metropolis. Retrieved from: http://radaris.com/p/Alison/Griffiths/

  10. Retrieved from: http://www.royalsaskmuseum.ca/research/building/life_trap.shtml II.B. ‘A History of Bindings’: Pre-contact, exploration, and early settlement

  11. A History of Bindings • How do we understand the experiences, some of them centuries old, that have made Canada’s existence possible? • And what is the nature of the ‘binding’ in our perceptions? • What can we find of the hidden self as we interpret past events and characters with contemporary understandings?

  12. The national concept of ‘Canada’ did not yet exist during the pre-Contact and exploration eras, but Canadian writers conjure imaginative interpretations of the events of those eras.

  13. Viking Terror (Tom Henighan, 2006) • The main characters and social-political details are based on what is known historically or derived from Viking sagas; they are set amid the 11th-century tumult in Greenland between the Norse religion and the encroachment of Christianity. Retrieved from: http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol13/no3/vikingterror.html

  14. Initiation (Virginia Frances Schwartz, 2003) • Set in the pre-contact fifteenth-century Pacific Northwest, this novel follows a year in the life of a coastal Kwakiutl settlement, dependent upon the seasonal return of spawning salmon, and now threatened by starvation. Retrieved from: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1258796.Initiation

  15. The Alchemist’s Dream (John Wilson, 2007) • This text evokes mysteries surrounding Henry Hudson’s fatal 1611 search for the passage to Cathay. When his ship Nonsuch returns from Hudson Bay to London in 1669 with its load of furs, it also brings, the doomed explorer’s lost journal. The story is seamlessly woven into gripping adventure and betrayal, political intrigue, and action on the high seas. Retrieved from: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL8569090M/The_Alchemist's_Dream

  16. Esther (Sharon E. McKay, 2004) • Set in 18th-century New France (later Quebec), this historical adventure fictionalizes the true story of 18-year-old Jacques la Fargue, who was actually Esther Brandeau disguised as a boy, and the first Jew in the Catholic colony. Retrieved from: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Esther-Sharon-E-Mckay/9780143312048-item.html

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