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Drawing upon recent anthropological scholarship for a general theory of production, exchange, and valuation, this essay seeks to understand cultural appropriation, in a consequential but not exclusive way, as an ambivalent process whereby the norms and practices of imperialist society may be challenged by modern writers whether of Native or non-Native heritage. The examples of Emily Cart, Marius Barbeau, and Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) here illuminate a basic set of relationships between modernism, imperialism, and nationalism.

Discusses the place of Canadian literature in the 21st century. Details on Canadian literature in the latter part of the twentieth century; Technological developments that influenced the production of literature in the late twentieth century; Characteristics of Canadian literature as an academic field.

Talks about the bad multiplicity in Canadian literature. Assumption in critical practice regarding Canadian literature; Definition of bad multiplicity; Analysis of the history of Canadian sociability.

Introduces a series of articles on Canadian literature.

Focuses on the Canadian obsession with the North, which informs its literature and criticisms alike. Canadian literature's resistance to Romanticism; Reference to Wiebe's work `A Discovery of Strangers'; Technologies often brought to the fore in accounts of the North; Reason why northern expeditions continually emphasize technology.