Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction - Softcover

Terry Goldie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551113732 ISBN 13: 9781551113739

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2003

Synopsis

“No matter how well you think you already know these Canadian classics, you emerge from the pages of Pink Snow with a sense of fresh insights.” — Russell Brown, University of Toronto at Scarborough|Drawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances in literature. Goldie brings an original, engaging, and sometimes provocative critical perspective to bear on both Canadian classics and less mainstream works. Chapters include: Wacousta (John Richardson) As For Me and My House (Sinclair Ross) Who Has Seen the Wind (W.O. Mitchell) The Mountain and the Valley (Ernest Buckler) Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen) Place D’Armes (Scott Symons) Fifth Business (Robertson Davies) The Wars (Timothy Findley) Thy Mother’s Glass (David Watmough) Funny Boy (Shyam Selvadurai) Kiss of the Fur Queen (Tomson Highway)

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About the Author

Terry Goldie teaches English Literature and Social and Political Thought at York University. He is the author of Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures (McGill-Queen’s, 1989), editor of In a Queer Country: Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context (Arsenalpulp, 2001), and co-editor, with Daniel David Moses, of An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English (Oxford, 1998).

From the Back Cover

Drawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances in literature. Goldie brings an original, engaging, and sometimes provocative critical perspective to bear on both Canadian classics and less mainstream works. Chapters include:

Wacousta (John Richardson)
As For Me and My House (Sinclair Ross)
Who Has Seen the Wind (W.O. Mitchell)
The Mountain and the Valley (Ernest Buckler)
Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen)
Place D'Armes (Scott Symons)
Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
The Wars (Timothy Findley)
Thy Mother's Glass (David Watmough)
Funny Boy (Shyam Selvadurai)
Kiss of the Fur Queen (Tomson Highway)

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1551113732
• ISBN 13: 9781551113739
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272