A boring coming of age Canada book about a 50 year old man called Sam and his three friends. Their bond boringly remains until adulthood experiencing all the things that happen with life like less hockey playing for falling in love and death. My country can do better. This makes the average teen show look like soft-core pornography.
This is not a collection of short stories by Canadian authors but a sample of favorite Canadian novels and authors from 1984 to the year of publication. Each section of authors followed a theme and each story share thoughts on the writer's history and style and also thoughts on the various books. A good starting point of Canadian literature but leans biased towards male writers. A starting point and nothing more.
A government sanctioned book that shoves race down the Canadians throat. Michael Buma examines how the Canadian hockey novel adjudicates masculinity and national identity by proposing and enforcing a homogenizing image of the Canadian as tough, northern, white, and male while almost faulting white people for being white while hockey shaming fans for supporting an all white sport. Ridiculous book.
A comical funny offbeat classic novel about slavery from the days where Canadian authors were not controlled by the government. Reed certainly has a profound idea to share, he discusses slavery in a way that makes one wonder the many ways we enslave others and ourselves. It reminds us of the horrors that occurred but reminds us that things have not been fully repaired. We still suck. How do we deal with that. This is a multilayered postmodern satire of slavery and the racism that pervades America, not just in the 19th century, but in the late 20th century as well. This pseudo slave narrative at this point becomes commentary on contemporary Canadian culture by way of America and the ongoing need to be in control or to be controlled.
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