Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I

Contents

Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction Contemporary Canadian First World War Narratives: Remembering Canada’s Best Self 1 Chapter One The Dead Speak: Considering the Use of Prosopopoeia in Dancock’s Dance, Mary’s Wedding, and The Deep 27 Chapter Two The War and Concepts of Nation in Jack Hodgins’s Broken Ground and Frances Itani’s Deafening 57 Chapter Three Abandoning the Archivist: Commemorating the War Insider and Outsider in the First World War Novels of Alan Cumyn and Jane Urquhart 85 Chapter Four Other Canadians: The Representation of Alternative Versions of the Canadian War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us 119 VI CONTENTS Conclusion Representations of the First World War and Wishing 161 Notes 173 Bibliography 195 Index 205 ...