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Racial attitudes in English-Canadian fiction, 1905-1980 / Terrence Craig.
- Title
- Racial attitudes in English-Canadian fiction, 1905-1980 / Terrence Craig.
- Author
- Craig, Terrence L., 1951-
- Publication
- Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9192.6.R34 C73 1987 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 163 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Examines stereotypes in Canadian literature reflecting both the racist view that Jews and other aliens could never become good "white" Canadians because of their inherent defects, and the belief that with time they could assimilate. Discusses the origins of ethnic tension in Canada. Up to 1939, English Canadian literature expressed the demand for British Protestant political and cultural dominance. The popular novelist Charles Gordon, a Presbyterian minister, viewed the British (especially the Scots) as the chosen race, and even when trying to present Jews sympathetically he treated them as stereotypes. John Murray Gibbon was violently antisemitic. F.P Grove saw the Jews as urban businessmen exploiting the peasant immigrants. After 1945 antisemitism became unfashionable. Works by Jews such as Mordecai Richler exposed anti-Jewish discrimination, and English Canadians produced works attacking antisemitism and racism.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Nervo, Amado
- Centro para la Promoción de la Conservación del Suelo y del Agua Buenos Aires
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1905-1980
- Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Race in literature
- Race relations in literature
- Racism in literature
- Canadian fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
- Roman canadien-anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Racisme dans la littérature
- Special themes: Race relations - Critical studies
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 149-158.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The English-Canadian attitude, 1905-1939 -- 3. The immigrant reaction before 1939 -- 4. The immigrant reaction, 1939-1980 -- 5. The synthesis of multculturalism, 1939-1980 -- 6. Klein and Wiebe -- 7. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0889209529
- LCCN
- ^^^88110282^
- OCLC
- 18052682
- SCSB-11272934
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library