Crossing the medicine line : the cowboy in Canadian prairie fiction

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dc.contributor.authorWiebe, Reginald G. D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-12T20:14:14Z
dc.date.available2012-06-12T20:14:14Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractFollowing Jane Tompkins' proposal in West of Everything that the cowboy generates his sense of self by opposing eastern centres as well as migrating across prairie landscape, and Dick Harrison's suggestion in Unnamed Country that Canadian prairie writing has developed no such figure, I choose to examine the impact of the (predominantly) American cowboy on Canadian prairie fiction. The conflicting dynamics of Harold Innis' Laurentian Thesis, which states that Canadian culture and identity were imported from the east, and Frederick Turner's Frontier Thesis, arguing that American identity is generated on the new frontier, provide means to interrogate the ways in which the cowboy represents and reveals different aspects of Canadian identity than can be found through the comparable law-making figure of the Mountie. The cowboy opposes the Laurentian Thesis, but, I argue, does not simply translate the Frontier Thesis to Canada. I track the ways the cowboy inflects Canadian prairie life - through the lenses of gender, of national selfhood, and of First Nations identity - by examining the writing of Sinclair Ross, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and Thomas King.en_US
dc.format.extent6672119 bytesen_US
dc.identifier(Sirsi) a1891624en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/8044
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.titleCrossing the medicine line : the cowboy in Canadian prairie fictionen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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