A burned-out advertising professional briefly leaves his stressful job to reflect on life. His experience goes far beyond expectation, and he reexamines his values, finding life changes are necessary for a renewal of inner peace.
A burned-out advertising professional briefly leaves his stressful job to reflect on life. His experience goes far beyond expectation, and he reexamin...
This book examines the representation of masculinities in the fictions and autobiographies of some of Canada's most exciting writers, including Austin Clarke, Dany Laferriere, Neil Bissoondath, Michael Ondaatje, Ven Begamudre, and Rohinton Mistry, to show how cross-cultural migration disrupts assumed codes for masculine behaviour and practice. It is the first book-length study of masculinities in Canadian literature and also the first to discuss these prominent postcolonial writers in relation to one another.
Coleman founds his study on the belief that literary endeavour is socially...
This book examines the representation of masculinities in the fictions and autobiographies of some of Canada's most exciting writers, including Aus...
In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders. He argues that a specific form of whiteness emerged in Canada that was heavily influenced by Britishness. Examining four allegorical figures that recur in a wide range of Canadian writings between 1820 and 1950 - the Loyalist fratricide, the enterprising Scottish orphan, the muscular Christian, and the maturing colonial son - Coleman outlines a genealogy of Canadian...
In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines ...
