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New offers an unconventionally structured overview of Canadian literature, from Native American mythologies to contemporary texts. Publishers Weekly A History of Canadian Literature looks at the work of writers and the social and cultural contexts that helped shape their preoccupations and direct their choice of literary form. W.H. New explains how - from early records of oral tales to the writing strategies of the early twenty-first century - writer, reader, literature, and society are interrelated. New discusses both Aboriginal and European mythologies, looking at pre-Contact narratives and also at the way Contact experience altered hierarchies of literary value. He then considers representations of the "real," whether in documentary, fantasy, or satire; historical romance and the social construction of Nature and State; and ironic subversions of power, the politics of cultural form, and the relevance of the media to a representation of community standard and individual voice. New suggests some ways in which writers of the later twentieth century codified such issues as history, gender, ethnicity, and literary technique itself. In this second edition, he adds a lengthy chapter that considers how writers at the turn of the twenty-first century have reimagined their society and their roles within it, and an expanded chronology and bibliography. Some of these writers have spoken from and about various social margins (dealing with issues of race, status, ethnicity, and sexuality), some have sought emotional understanding through strategies of history and memory, some have addressed environmental concerns, and some have reconstructed the world by writing across genres and across different media. All genres are represented, with examples chosen primarily, but not exclusively, from anglophone and francophone texts. A chronology, plates, and a series of tables supplement the commentary. Contents List of plates List of tables Acknowledgments Preface to the second edition Illustrations 1 MYTHMAKERS: EARLY LITERATURE Introduction Aboriginal cultures Aboriginal texts Aboriginal mythology Inuit culture Inuit mythology European myth and cultural context 2 REPORTERS: LITERATURE TO 1867 Backgrounds Journalism and cultural politics Exploration journals Missionary journals Travel, captivity and settlement journals Letters and epistolary form Satire and speech Politics and poetry Romantic documentary Documentary romance 3 TALE-TELLERS: LITERATURE TO 1922 Anglo-protestant, ultramontane, prairie Currents of ideas Historical tales Sentimentality, satire and social reform Social and literary resistance Nature stories Confederation Poets The Nelligan symbol Sketches of reality 4 NARRATORS: LITERATURE TO 1959 National romance and the land Painters and the Montreal Group Social protest and social change Realism The politics of literary form Literature and war Voice and point of view Radio and stage Public and personal poetry National presumptions Sources of change 5 ENCODERS: LITERATURE TO 1985 Language, literature, the state and the academies Codes of myth Codes of history Codes of figure and person Codes of gender Codes of fantasy and folklore Parodic codes Epilogue 6 RECONSTRUCTORS: LITERATURE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Demography, politics, technology Changing perceptions Continuities Rethinking society Literature and aboriginality Laughter and social criticism From laughter to violence Recuperative paradigms of identity: ethnicity & sexuality Living in print and performance Reconstructing history The play of storytelling Chronological table Further reading Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z 'A History of Canadian Literature' looks at the work of individual Canadian writers and also at the social and cultural contexts that helped shape their preoccupations and direct their choice of literary form