Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures - Couverture rigide

Mason, Jody

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ISBN 10 : 1442644338 ISBN 13 : 9781442644335

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2013

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated in and protested against the discursive framing of unemployment. It argues that Depression-era conceptions of unemployment shaped later twentieth-century understandings of both worklessness and citizenship.By examining novels, short stories, poetry, manifestos, and agitprop, Jody Mason situates the literary history of the cultural left in a broader context, challenges the dominant literary-historical narrative of the pioneer settler, and contributes to new scholarship on Canada's modern period. By bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada's most important writers.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jody Mason is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1442644338
• ISBN 13: 9781442644335
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272