Life Lived ‘like a map with all the rivers and hills showing’
Emily Carr’s travel vignette from the rough edge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12648487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dianne Newell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-85 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Life Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1448-4528 • E-ISSN: 1751-2964 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10408340308518274 |
| OpenAlex | W2018473750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay examines an autobiographical vignette by Canadian painter-writer Emily Carr (1871–1945) through the lens of Frye’s idea of the ‘explorer-painter’. Through wide-ranging research, the article touches on historical concepts of the Canadian West Coast, the role of the visual and of transportation structures in travellers’ experiences of landscape, the tension between the natural and industrial technological realms (particularly in regard to coastal salmon canneries), images of the body (racialised and/or aging and vulnerable), and Carr’s competing (self) representations. The centrepiece is the extraordinary, understudied ‘Salt Water’ story or vignette from Carr’s award-winning first book, Klee Wyck
Archaeology · Art history · Carr · Mountaineering · Painting · Vignette · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Psychology · Social Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |