Timing Canada : the shifting politics of time in Canadian literary culture

Timing Canada : the shifting politics of time in Canadian literary culture / Paul Huebener.

"From punch clocks to prison sentences, from immigration waiting periods to controversial time-zone boundaries, from Indigenous grave markers that count time in centuries rather than years, to the fact that free time is shrinking faster for women than for men--time shapes the fabric of Canadian...

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Main Author: Huebener, Paul, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Time in literature.
Time > Social aspects > Canada.
Time > Political aspects > Canada.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature
Time in literature
Time > Political aspects
Time > Social aspects
Canada
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: When Is Now?
  • 1 Canadian Time: Reading the Politics of Time in Canadian Culture
  • 2 Negotiating Subjective Time in a Social World
  • 3 Reading Time and Social Relations Critically
  • 4 Imagining Indigenous Temporalities
  • 5 Disrupting and Remaking Constructions of Time
  • Conclusion: Provisional Time.

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