The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada

ISBN-13: 9780774831833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 336 str.

Joan Sangster

Opis

Resilient ideological assumptions, shifting economic priorities, and government policy in the postwar era influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. In an enlightening exposure of Canada's cultural landscape, The Iconic North lays bare the relationship between settler nationbuilding and popular images of Aboriginal experience. Joan Sangster redirects current debates about the geopolitical prospects of the North by addressing how women and gender relations have played a key role in the history of northern development. She reveals how Indigenous and non-Indigenous women alike shaped gender, class, and political relationships in the circumpolar north ? a region now commanding more of the world's attention.