National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada

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241 INDEX Aboriginal authorship, xv, xx, 83–84, 99–111 Aboriginal characters, xviii, xx, 6, 10, 15, 18, 26, 30, 31, 191. See also “Telling a Better Story …”; Three Day Road Aboriginal histories, 152, 155, 159, 162–64. See also Three Day Road; Traditional History … of the Ojibway Nation;Where the River Narrows Aboriginal residential schools, 87, 89–92, 97 “Aca nada,” 27 Adair, Dennis, 41, 46 African-Canadian authors/literature, xv, xxi, 113–27, 128n4 The Afterlife of George Cartwright (Steffler ), 23 Alberta, 156, 157, 158, 159, 162, 186; Historical and Archaeological Resources, 158 Alberta Historical Review, 157 Alberta Historical Society, 157 Albert (France), 90–91 Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women, 120, 123 Allward, Walter, 114 American Historical Association, 152 Amulree Royal Commission, 169, 170, 171 Ana Historic (Marlatt), xxii, xxiii, 183–94 ancestral impulse, 21–22, 25, 28–34 Les Anciens Canadiens (Gaspé), viii Anderson, Benedict, 25 “‘And They May Get It Wrong,After All’: Reading Alice Munro’s‘Meneseteung’” (Ware), xix, 67–77 “angel of history,” 173–74, 176 Anishnaubae, 85 Annette, the Metis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion (Collins), 44 “Anniversary of an Idea” (MacLennan), 56 Aquin, Hubert: Next Episode, 66n5 archaeological surveys, 162 Arendt, Hannah, 64 Argimou: A Legend of the Micmac (Huyghue), viii Atwood, Margaret, 39, 41, 67, 70; Survival , 156 Aubry, Jack: “Diving into the Gene Pool,” 21 Badlands (Kroetsch), 154, 159, 160, 163 “The Ballad of Monsieur Riel” (anon.), 44 Balzac, Honoré de, 64 Bannister, Jerry, 168–69; “The Politics of Cultural Memory,” 173 Ban the Bombers, 41 Banting, Pamela, 183 Barometer Rising (MacLennan), xix, 53–65; Odysseus motif in, 55, 61 Barthes, Roland, x Batoche (Sask.), 161 Beatrice Chancy (Clarke), 126 Beaumont Hamel, 168 A Beautiful Rebel (Campbell), 197 242 I N D E X “The Beggar Maid” (Munro), 204 Bengough, J.W., 44 Benjamin, Walter, xix, 8, 55, 62, 63, 64, 65, 173; “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 61 Beothuk, 167, 168, 177, 178, 179, 180 Berger, John, 133 The Best American Short Stories 1989, 67, 79, 207 The Best American Short Stories of the Century (1999), 67 The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties (1990), 67 The Betrothed (Manzoni), viii biblical narratives, 51 The Big Why (Winter), 179 Bird, Jimmy Jock, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17 Birney, Earle, 152 Bishop Feild College, 168, 171, 172 Black Canada, 114 Black English, 125–26 Blackfoot, 10, 12 “Black geographies,” 115, 127 Black porters, 117–18 Blaise, Clark, 34 Bloom, Harold, 40 Bluesprint, 127 Boer War, 57, 162 Bois-brûlés (Roux), 47 Bond, Michael Shaw: Way Out West: On the Trail of an Errant Ancestor, 166n9 Book of Martyrs (Foxe), 177 Bourassa, Napoléon: Jacques et Marie: Souvenirs d’un peuple disperse, viii Bowering, George, x; Burning Water, xxii, xxiii, 183–94, 212 Bow River Expedition, 4–5, 8, 10, 14, 17 Boyden, Joseph: Three Day Road, xv, xvii, xx, 83–97, 202 Brand, Dionne, 113, 127 Brantlinger, Patrick, 105 Braz, Albert, xiv, xviii, 11, 12, 39 Breaking the Silence, 90, 97 Brébeuf, Jean de, 31, 33, 35 Brennan, Timothy, 25, 26 British Columbia, 183–95 Brogan, Kathleen, 48 Broken Ground (Hodgins), 83 Brook, Peter, 73 Brooks, Lisa, 109, 110 Brossard, Nicole, 183 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 117 Brown, Chester, 50; Louis Riel: A ComicStrip Biography, 49 Brown, Jennifer S.H., 4 The Brownie of Bodsbeck (Hogg), 209 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 206 Bruce Peninsula, 199, 212 Bumsted, J.M., 42–43, 47 Burley, Edith, 7, 12 Burning Water (Bowering), xxii, xxiii, 183–94, 212 Buss, Helen, 12 Butala, Sharon, 161 Byatt, A.S., 67; On Histories and Stories, 40 Byers, David, 6 Cabot, John, 176 Cain, 39, 51 Cameron, Elspeth, 56, 57, 60 Cameronians, 208, 209 Campbell, Claire: “To Free Itself, and Find Itself,” xxi, 151–65 Campbell, Maria, 163 Campbell, Wilfred, 198; A Beautiful Rebel, 197 “Canada,” novelistic representation of, xvi Canada First Movement, 43 Canada Land Company, 197 Canadian historical fiction, early criticism on, x–xi “Canadian Historiographic Metafiction” (Hutcheon), x, xi, xvi Canadian identity. See national identity Canadian Literature, xii, 36n6 Canadian Métis Society, 162 The Canadian Postmodern (Hutcheon), xi, 159 I N D E X 243 Canadian West historical fiction, 151–65 cannibalism, 9, 11–12, 84, 86, 92. See also windigo Cardinal, Harold, 163 “The career of Black English in Nova Scotia,” 125 Careless, Maurice, 157 Carrington, Ildikó de Papp, 71; Controlling the Uncontrollable, 68...