Mei-Chuen Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6818190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mei-Chuen Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mei-Chuen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG M |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5708-3183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Landscape and history in Jane Urquhart’s Away
This article proposes to read the landscape in Jane Urquhart’s Away both as a stratigraphy of memories and as a cultural medium that not only symbolises power relations but also works as an agent of power. Through investigating the dehistoricised and decontextualised landscape in Northrop Frye’s garrison mentality, the article argues that Away refuses to participate in the colonialist operation of reducing the Canadian topography to terra nullius…
Wilderness, the West and the national imaginary in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe scrutinises the garrison image in the wider context of the North American West in The Englishman's Boy. His appropriation of the conventions of the Western lays bare the underpinning ideologies of the genre, especially imperialist assumptions about wilderness and the role that genre and wilderness play in American and Canadian national mythologies. His configuration of the North American West rejects the traditional idea of space…
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Wilderness, the West and the national imaginary in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe scrutinises the garrison image in the wider context of the North American West in The Englishman's Boy. His appropriation of the conventions of the Western lays bare the underpinning ideologies of the genre, especially imperialist assumptions about wilderness and the role that genre and wilderness play in American and Canadian national mythologies. His configuration of the North American West rejects the traditional idea of space…
Landscape and history in Jane Urquhart’s Away
This article proposes to read the landscape in Jane Urquhart’s Away both as a stratigraphy of memories and as a cultural medium that not only symbolises power relations but also works as an agent of power. Through investigating the dehistoricised and decontextualised landscape in Northrop Frye’s garrison mentality, the article argues that Away refuses to participate in the colonialist operation of reducing the Canadian topography to terra nullius…
Archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · American Literature and Culture (1 work) · American west (1 work) · Appropriation (1 work) · Canadian Identity and History (1 work)