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Jody Mason - Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures - 9781442644335 - V9781442644335
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Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures

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Description for Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures hardcover. By bridging close textual readings with book and publishing history, economic and sociological analysis, and original archival research, Writing Unemployment offers new ideas on work by many of Canada's most important writers. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.

This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated in and protested against the discursive framing of unemployment. It argues that Depression-era conceptions of unemployment shaped later twentieth-century understandings of both worklessness and citizenship.

By examining novels, short stories, poetry, manifestos, and agitprop, Jody Mason situates the literary history of the cultural left in a broader context, challenges the dominant literary-historical narrative of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442644335
SKU
V9781442644335
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Jody Mason
Jody Mason is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University.

Reviews for Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures
‘Highly recommended.’
T.Ware
Choice Magazine vol 51:03:2013
‘Jody Mason’s impressive new book deploys joblessness, along with the attendant political and cultural strategies developed to combat it.’
Michael Stewart
Canadian Literature Spring 2014
‘Writing Unemployment is a fascinating blend of cultural materialism, literary studies, and labour history… The Theoretical and methodological breadth of Jody Mason’s ... Read more

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