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Article: Alison Calder and Robert Wardhaugh, eds.: History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies.(Book review)
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- English Studies in Canada
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- September 1, 2007
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Alison Calder and Robert Wardhaugh, eds. History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005. 310 pp. $24.95-.
In History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies, Alison Calder and Robert Wardhaugh bring together ten essays by Canadian and American scholars whose common concern, broadly speaking, is to find new ways of conceptualizing the prairies. The point of the collection, according to its editors, is to interrogate and reconfigure conventional understandings of the prairies which posit or reinforce the notion that this region is timeless and frozen, at once "unchanging and unchangeable" ...