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ISBN: 9780776605517-21

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Metaphors and Maps: Imagining Canada into the Twenty-first Century

From: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

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In their introduction to Painting the Maple – a 1998 collection of essays that, as the metaphor in the title suggests, investigates some of the ways that race and gender influence our perceptions of Canada – Strong-Boag, Grace, Eisenberg, and Anderson (1998), warn that Canada is disintegrating.

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Lorna Irvine

Lorna Irvine is Professor of English, Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her publications include Sub/Version: Canadian Fictions By Women; Collecting Clues: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm; Critical Spaces: Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame, as well as many articles and book chapters devoted to the work of Canadian writers. She has been a member of the executive committee of ACSUS, the editorial boards of Quebec Studies and the American Review of Canadian Studies. Her current research investigates the writing of Canadian author Carol Shields.