{"product_id":"writing-alberta-george-melnyk-9781552388907","title":"Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this volume Melnyk and Coates continue the project of scholarly analysis of Alberta literature that they began with \u003cem\u003eWild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature\u003c\/em\u003e. They argue that the essays in their new book confirm that Alberta's literary identity is historically contingent with a diverse, changing content, that makes its definition a work-in-progress. The essays in this volume provide contemporary perspectives on major figures in poetry and fiction, such as Robert Kroetsch, Sheila Watson, Alice Major, and Fred Stenson. Other essays bring to light relatively unknown figures such as the Serbian Canadian writer David Albahari and the pioneer clergyman Nestor Dmytrow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting Alberta\u003c\/em\u003e offers a detailed discussion of contemporary Indigenous writers, an overview of Alberta historiography of the past century, and the fascinating autobiographical reflections of the novelist Katherine Govier on her literary career and its Alberta influences. This collection demonstrates that Alberta writers, especially in the contemporary period, are not afraid to uncover, re-think, and re-imagine parts of Alberta history, thereby exposing what had been lain to rest as an unfinished business needing serious re-consideration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Melnyk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1552388905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552388907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Calgary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.78h x 6.05w x 0.70d","brand":"George Melnyk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124859138303,"sku":"9781552388907","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d60fa38-53b7-4ff9-9f79-8e2d87c38fa4.jpg?v=1687439237","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-alberta-george-melnyk-9781552388907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}