The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada

by Joan Sangster

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Resilient ideological assumptions, shifting economic priorities, and government policy in the postwar era influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. In an enlightening exposure of Canada's cultural landscape, The Iconic North lays bare the relationship between settler nation building and popular images of Aboriginal experience. Joan Sangster redirects the debates about the geopolitical prospects of the North by addressing how women and gender relations have played a key role in the history of northern development. She reveals how assumptions about both Indigenous and non-Indigenous women shaped gender, class, and political relationships in the circumpolar north - a region now commanding more of the world's attention.
  • ISBN10 0774831839
  • ISBN13 9780774831833
  • Publish Date 21 May 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint University of British Columbia Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 400
  • Language English