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Mar
05
OTTAWA DOUBLE LAUNCH: Jody Mason - Home Feelings & Peter Thompson - Nights Below Foord Street
Thursday, March 5th, 20207:00 PM-9:00 PM
Haven Books & Café, 43 Seneca St, Ottawa, ON
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Join Jody Mason (Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement) and Peter Thompson (Nights below Foord Street: Literature and Popular Culture in Postindustrial Nova Scotia) for a joint launch of their respective books. The event is sponsored by the Department of English and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University.
Jody Mason is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University. Peter Thompson is associate professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps. In this critical history of the reading camp movement, Jody Mason undertakes the first sustained analysis of the organization that became Frontier College in 1919. Shifting the focus away from urban centres and postwar state narratives of citizenship, Home Feelings tracks the importance of reading projects and conceptions of literacy to the emergence of liberal citizenship in Canada prior to the Second World War.
According to its licence plates, tourist brochures, and commercials, Nova Scotia is Canada's Ocean Playground - an idyllic vacation spot brimming with traditional cultural experiences. Yet this picturesque and welcoming ad-friendly façade overlooks the province's history of industrial development, the impact of resource extraction on its landscape, and the effects of its painful and still unfinished period of deindustrialization. As Donald Trump and other populist politicians appeal to working-class nostalgia and international attention converges on environmental racism in northern Nova Scotia, Nights below Foord Street intervenes into debates over the cultural and social effects of the postindustrial economy.
