Bodies of Canada : conceptualizations of Canadian space and the rhetoric of gender
Authors:
- Zuzanna Maria Szatanik,
- Michał Krzysztof Krzykawski
Abstract
While conceiving the original call for papers for the present-’ canadian’-issue of RIAS, the editors’ main focus had been on discourses of space and gender. Our primary reason for this was that within the context of Canadian culture and literature the correlation between these two concepts has been strikingly manifest. In early English-Canadian texts, one often observes a ‘feminization of space’ (Best, 1995: 183) which is, however, characteristic of the literature of colonization in general. The process of taking over and possessing a foreign land implies, as W. H. New asserts, ‘penetration (of continent, of body)’ (1997: 114) which is typically construed as feminine, i.e., unknown, unfamiliar, and potentially hostile(...)
- Record ID
- USL4bf6de3e98104182bb32f9da53fe5731
- Author
- Journal series
- Review of International American Studies, ISSN 1991-2773
- Issue year
- 2011
- Vol
- 5
- No
- 1
- Pages
- 13-22
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- Keywords in English
- Canada, gender
- Handle.net URL
- hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/17202 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- File
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- File: 1
- Bodies of Canada : conceptualizations of Canadian space and the rhetoric of gender, File Szatanik_Bodies_of_Canada.pdf / 265 KB
- Szatanik_Bodies_of_Canada.pdf
- publication date: 06-02-2024
- Bodies of Canada : conceptualizations of Canadian space and the rhetoric of gender, File Szatanik_Bodies_of_Canada.pdf / 265 KB
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- 0
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- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://opus.us.edu.pl/info/article/USL4bf6de3e98104182bb32f9da53fe5731/
- URN
urn:uni-kat-prod:USL4bf6de3e98104182bb32f9da53fe5731
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