04705nam 2200805 450 991058459370332120230124141107.09781773852690(electronic bk.)978177385267610.1515/9781773852690(MiAaPQ)EBC7015918(Au-PeEL)EBL7015918(CKB)23736684100041EBL7015918(AU-PeEL)EBL7015918(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90037(PPN)267232675(DE-B1597)664095(DE-B1597)9781773852690(EXLCZ)992373668410004120230124d2022 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe American Western in Canadian literature /Joel DeshayeCalgary, Alberta :University of Calgary Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (426 pages)West series (Calgary, Alta.)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Deshaye, Joel The American Western in Canadian Literature Calgary : University of Calgary Press,c2022 9781773852676 Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Scaling and Spacing the Genre -- Tom King’s John Wayne -- The Northwestern Cross -- From Law to Outlaw -- CanLit’s Postmodern Westerns -- Degeneration through Violence -- Mining the Western in the Twenty-First Century -- Works Reproduced in Part -- Works Consulted -- IndexThe Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary phenomenon. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.West series (Calgary, Alta.)Canadian fictionCanadian literatureWestern stories, Canadianamerican literature.canadian literature.cowboy.cowgirl.cultural evolution.cultural history.cultural studies.indigenous.literary criticism.literary studies.north american literature.northern.popular culture.post-western.pulp fiction.western culture.western films.western movies.western-like.western.Canadian fiction.Canadian literature.Western stories, Canadian.813.6Deshaye Joel1977-1355019MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910584593703321The American Western in Canadian literature3359044UNINA03775nam 2200625 a 450 991080945670332120250322110032.09780814728536081472853710.18574/9780814728536(CKB)2520000000007936(EBL)865449(OCoLC)779828079(SSID)ssj0000482885(PQKBManifestationID)11289799(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482885(PQKBWorkID)10528721(PQKB)11268821(MiAaPQ)EBC865449(OCoLC)646885675(MdBmJHUP)muse10829(DE-B1597)548672(DE-B1597)9780814728536(ODN)ODN0002902523(OCoLC)646885675(oapen)136059(EXLCZ)99252000000000793620090220d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBabysitter an American history /Miriam Forman-Brunell1st ed.New York New York University Pressc2009New York, NY : New York University Press, [2009]©20091 online resource (328 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-2759-X 0-8147-2895-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1 The Beginnings of Babysitting --2 Suburban Parents and Sitter Unions --3 The Bobby-Soxer Babysitter --4 Making Better Babysitters --5 Boisterous Babysitters --6 Vixens and Victims --7 Sisterhoods of Sitters --8 Coming of Wage at the End of the Century --9 Quitter Sitters --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorOn Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun together—without the kids. But “getting a sitter”—especially a dependable one—rarely seems trouble-free. Will the kids be safe with “that girl”? It’s a question that discomfited parents have been asking ever since the emergence of the modern American teenage girl nearly a century ago. In Babysitter, Miriam Forman-Brunell brings critical attention to the ubiquitous, yet long-overlooked babysitter in the popular imagination and American history.Informed by her research on the history of teenage girls’ culture, Forman-Brunell analyzes the babysitter, who has embodied adults’ fundamental apprehensions about girls’ pursuit of autonomy and empowerment. In fact, the grievances go both ways, as girls have been distressed by unsatisfactory working conditions. In her quest to gain a fuller picture of this largely unexamined cultural phenomenon, Forman-Brunell analyzes a wealth of diverse sources, such as The Baby-sitter’s Club book series, horror movies like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, urban legends, magazines, newspapers, television shows, pornography, and more.Forman-Brunell shows that beyond the mundane, understandable apprehensions stirred by hiring a caretaker to “mind the children” in one’s own home, babysitters became lightning rods for society’s larger fears about gender and generational change. In the end, experts’ efforts to tame teenage girls with training courses, handbooks, and other texts failed to prevent generations from turning their backs on babysitting.BabysittingUnited StatesHistory20th centuryBabysittingHistory649/.10248Forman-Brunell Miriam1955-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809456703321UNINA