Newfoundland to Cochin China

Newfoundland to Cochin China
Author: Ethel Vincent
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 5041204861

"Newfoundland to Cochin China" by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Eastern Encounters: Canadian Women's Writing about the East, 1867-1929

Eastern Encounters: Canadian Women's Writing about the East, 1867-1929
Author: Shoshannah Ganz 著
Publisher: 國立臺灣大學出版中心
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9863502308

Eastern Encounters releases early Canadian women writers from a simple focus on autobiography and racial politics and interrogates their specific and sophisticated Asian influences. With a compelling reconstruction of historical context, Ganz has created perhaps the first book in a much-needed series that will revisit Canadian nationalism through the important cultural exchanges she examines. Though shaped with an Asian readership in mind, Eastern Encounters is an important work for all who wish to challenge the notion that Judeo-Christian traditions almost exclusively shaped early Canadian discourse.

Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water

Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water
Author: Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ethel Gwendoline in the book "Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water" describes her travels with her husband through the British Empire and America in the late 1800s. This book serves as a simple descriptive journal of what she saw and did. It contains their travels across the Atlantic through the USA and Canada, across the Pacific to Australia and New Zealand, the Dutch East Indies, the Indian subcontinent, and Egypt.

Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador

Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador
Author: María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443883336

The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is a mythologized place that resonates with tragic adventure, polar expeditions and Grand Banks fishing; a real and imagined geography with an incredible artistic output that calls for critical discussion. This book examines the diversity of this province’s literature and culture, taking into consideration the expertise of scholars and writers who have first-hand knowledge of its unique context. Chapters on history, travel, fiction, autobiography, poetry, theatre, storytelling, filmmaking, and the visual arts provide an up-to-date survey across a broad range of artistic endeavours, as well as close readings of selected texts. The questions that fill the pages of Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador arise from the awareness its contributors have of historically shared experiences, but also of shared delusions, and their essays provoke contemplation beyond the labels local/global, Newfoundlander/Come-From-Away. Aboriginal histories and writing come to the foreground in this panoramic view that balances descriptions of mainstream, vernacular and Indigenous cultural productions. The final chapter is organized as a multi-voiced interview which serves as a supplement to the academic essays. Here, themes are revisited and personalized as several writers express their feelings about what it means to be a Newfoundlander and an artist. As such, this book will encourage dialogue about Newfoundland and Labrador’s literary and artistic achievements within the international community of readers and researchers.

The Feminine Gaze

The Feminine Gaze
Author: Anne Innis Dagg
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 088920845X

Many Canadian women fiction writers have become justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction? When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such non-fiction authors better known, she expected to find just a few dozen. To her delight, she unearthed 473 writers who have produced over 674 books. These women describe not only their country and its inhabitants, but a remarkable variety of other subjects: from the story of transportation to the legacy of Canadian missionary activity around the world. While most of the writers lived in what is now Canada, other authors were British or American travellers who visited Canada throughout the years and reported on what they found here. This compendium has brief biographies of all these women, short descriptions of their books, and a comprehensive index of their books’ subject matters. The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945 will be an invaluable research tool for women’s studies and for all who wish to supplement the male gaze on Canada’s past.

Finding Japan

Finding Japan
Author: Anne Park Shannon
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 192705155X

Today's headlines often feature stories about new trade agreements with Asian countries, but tapping eastern markets has long been a goal of Canadian commerce. When the Canadian Pacific Railway reached its terminus in British Columbia, which was seen as the launching point for trade in the Far East, particularly with China and Japan. The history of members of those cultures immigrating to Canada is well documented, but there has been little written on Canadians venturing across the Pacific from west to east. When adventurers first crossed the Pacific from BC in the 19th century, they encountered the closely guarded shores of Japan, a society emerging from 200 years of self-imposed isolation and transforming from a largely feudal country into a modern world power. Curious outsiders had for centuries been unable to penetrate the land of shoguns. This collection of stories begins with Ranald Macdonald, who tempted fate by intentionally shipwrecking himself off the coast of Japan in 1848, and takes readers through to 1945. As Japan slowly opened up to foreign influences, the new arrivals proved to be an intriguing and diverse cast of adventurers, missionaries, businessmen, social activists, soldiers and misfits.