Title & Author:

Our rural selves : memory and the visual in Canadian childhoods / edited by Claudia Mitchell and April Mandrona.

Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rural beginnings / Claudia Mitchell and April Mandrona -- George Agnew Reid's paintings in relation to English Canadian collective memories of rural childhood in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century Canada / Loren Lerner -- Making Green Gables Anne's Home : rural landscapes and ordinary homes of Canadian fiction and film / Frederika A. Eilers -- Listening to the rhythms of rural life, 1920-1940: oral history and childhood agency / Michael Krohn -- "I never had a childhood": narratives of work, play, and loss in Postwar rural Atlantic Canada / Michael Corbett and Fred Horner -- Making friends in the middle of nowhere: handmade dolls and a back-to-the-lander childhood / April Mandroma -- Exploring memory and place through wet plate collodion photography: how a Newfoundland childhood inspired the work Trace / Karen Stentaford -- How I became invisible: a lesbian childhood in the Woodsy North / Marni Stanley -- Documenting a transgender rural childhood: exploring My Prairie Home / Barbara Pini, Elizabeth Marshall, and Wendy Keys -- Pumpjacks, social class, and the struggle for belonging / Maureen Kendrick -- An "Indian" doll: a Mohawk child's identity in crisis / Sandra Owen:nakon Deer-Standup -- Teaching Larry Loyie's As Long as the Rivers Flow: real and imagined childhood memories and the intransigence of the cattle truck / Teresa Strong-Wilson and Amarou Yoder -- Mapping futures, making selves: how rural young people experience The Real Game / Kate Cairns -- Our rural futures / Claudia Mitchell and April Mandrona.
Issued also in electronic formats.

Summary:

"Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, Our Rural Selves interrogates and represents individual and collective memories of childhood in rural landscapes and small towns. Drawing on visual artifacts whose origins range from the early twentieth century to today, such as photographs, films, objects, picture books, and digital games, contributors offer readings of childhood that are geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse. They examine the memories of Indigenous children, the experiences of back-to-the-land youth, and boom-or-bust childhoods within the petroleum, farming, and fishing industries. Illustrating often neglected and overlooked aspects of adolescence, this collection suggests new ways of studying social connectedness and collective futures. Innovative and revealing in its use of visual studies, autoethnography, and memory-work, Our Rural Selves explores representation, imagination, and what it means to grow up rural in Canada."-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

9780773556997 (softcover)
0773556990 (softcover)
9780773556980 (hardcover)
0773556982 (hardcover)

Subject:

Rural children Canada Social conditions.
Material culture Canada.
Collective memory Canada.
Enfants en milieu rural Canada Conditions sociales.
Culture matérielle Canada.
Mémoire collective Canada.
HISTORY Social History.
Rural conditions.
Material culture.
Collective memory.
Rural children Social conditions.
Canada Rural conditions.
Canada Conditions rurales.
Canada.

Form/genre:

Ethnographies.
Études ethnographiques.

Added entries:

Mitchell, Claudia, editor.
Mandrona, April, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304909
Call No.: BIB 250645
Status: Available