Auto Biography In Canada

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on critical approaches, the essays explore auto/biography as a discourse about identity and representation in the context of numerous disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada looks at how life narratives are made in Canada . Originating from literary studies, history, and social work, the essays in this collection cover topics that range from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper death notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, Grey Owl and authenticity, France Théoret and autofiction, and a new reading of Stolen Life, the collaborative text by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak’s useful “big picture” introduction traces the history of auto/biography studies in Canada. While the contributors chart disciplinary shifts taking place in auto/biography studies, their essays are also part of the ongoing scholarship that is remaking ways to understand Canada.

This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an in depth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature. Published in English.

This is the autobiography of Samuel Thompson, a pioneer farmer and settler to the Canadian frontier. He was born in London, England in 1810. And after an apprenticeship with a printer, he moved to Upper Canada in 1833 with his two brothers and settled on farms there. In 1837, he went to Toronto in search of work where he joined the city guards during the Upper Canada Rebellion. He subsequently worked in newspaper and insurance business ventures. It was while in his final position as manager of the city library that he wrote his autobiography.

Autobiography by a young Native man, James Tyman from Saskatchewan. A record of his own voyage of self-discovery, and an open letter to the people of Canada about how his life has been shaped and almost ended by troubling aspects of our society.

Autobiography by a young Native man, James Tyman from Saskatchewan. A record of his own voyage of self-discovery, and an open letter to the people of Canada about how his life has been shaped and almost ended by troubling aspects of our society.