Reconstructing National Identity: The Nation Forged in Fire-Myth and Canadian Literature: 21 (Canadiana: Literaturen/Kulturen, Literatures/Cultures, Littératures/Cultures) - Tapa dura

Ikas

 
9783631749371: Reconstructing National Identity: The Nation Forged in Fire-Myth and Canadian Literature: 21 (Canadiana: Literaturen/Kulturen, Literatures/Cultures, Littératures/Cultures)

Sinopsis

The author presents the significance of the First World War for the construction of a Canadian national identity by conducting an interdisciplinary analysis. The reconstruction focuses on how Canadian authors have challenged, re-imagined and re-written the ‹Nation Forged in Fire›-myth to bring to life the experiences of national minorities.

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Karin Ikas is an Associate Professor of English, North American and Postcolonial Studies. She studied at the universities of Würzburg (Germany) and Texas (UT Austin) and was a visiting scholar at various universities in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia. She received her Ph.D. in English and North American Studies and Didactics at Würzburg University with overall excellence (summa cum laude). Her doctoral thesis on modern Chicana Literature won the Daimler Chrysler Foundation’s "Academy Award for Intercultural Studies 2001." Her Habilitation she obtained in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard) prefaced her co-edited book Communicating in the Third Space.

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