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CANADIAN LANDSCAPES/ PAYSAGES CANADIENS
part of the study examines the influence of Gabrielle Roy’s novel on the neigh¬
bourhood, which is first aestheticized, then transforms into urban space, and
finally is deemed cultural heritage.
Krisztina Kod6 probes the dimensions of Indigenous landscapes through
the analysis of Bill Powles and Drew Hayden Taylor’s works as to how they
manage to link history, spiritual symbolism, fantasy, and formulate a modern
myth that fits intricately into present day multicultural/ global society.
In her reading of Samuel Hearne’s Journeys from Prince of Wales’s Fort in
Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean, Laura Suszta proposes that not only did
the landscape and the climate affect the Denesuline’s daily practice of religion,
but also their worldview and universal thinking, as well as their relationship
to their own religion.
Marija Pani¢ analyses the representation of food as part of the cultural
landscape of French-speaking Canada in the works of Louis Hémon, Gabrielle
Roy and Monique Proulx.
Judit Nagy aims to explore how the church is represented in selected works
written by Korean Canadians. She argues that, while some members may find
Korean ethnic churches confining, the strong community forming effect of
the church is markedly present in these works at multiple levels.
Susan Siggelakis turns to historical landscapes: she examines the views of
the editors of The Colored American, a Black-owned, abolitionist newspaper
published in New York City during the latter 1830s. Using materials published
therein, the author attempts to discern their editors’ views on the Upper and
Lower Canadian rebellions, whereby colonists attempted to overthrow British
imperial rule.
In his study, Sergej Macura discusses two noticeably different views of
pristine Canadian territory as perceived through narratives of the first Frank¬
lin expedition into the Arctic. One is proposed by John Franklin’s travelogue
entitled The Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years
1819-20-21-22 (1824) and another by Rudy Wiebe’s novel A Discovery of Stran¬
gers (1994).
Kenneth Alfred Froehling zooms in on the political landscape of the bye¬
lection of August 9, 1943 in the Montreal federal riding of Cartier, an intrigu¬
ing episode of Canadian political history.
In his study, Don Sparling focuses on the artwork created during World
War II, and specifically on landscapes in the broadest sense of the term as the
genre that is often regarded as central to the Canadian artistic heritage.
Finally, as for cinematic landscapes, Janos Kenyeres argues that critics may
be mistaken when they decry Armenian Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s
later work. Moreover, if we look at Egoyan’s earlier films, we can see that the
critical response they received was not always one of acclaim.