TY - BOOK ID - 78628023 TI - Divided highways PY - 2019 SN - 0776627759 0776627740 9780776627755 9780776627748 9780776627762 0776627767 0776627732 9780776627731 0776627732 9780776627731 PB - Ottawa, Ontario DB - UniCat KW - Canadian literature KW - Travel writing KW - Travel in literature. KW - Travel KW - Authorship KW - Voyages and travels in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Aboriginal. KW - Canadian studies. KW - Cultural studies. KW - Literary criticism. KW - Quebec literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78628023 AB - The road trip genre, well established in the literatures of Canada, is a natural outcome of the nation's obsession with geography. Divided Highways examines road narratives by Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois and Indigenous authors and the sense of place and nationhood in these communities. Geography describes the land, and history peoples it, just as memories connect us to place. This is why road trips are such a feature of writing in Canada, allowing the travellers to claim, at least symbolically, the terrain they have traversed. Macfarlane examines works by a variety of writers from each of these communities, including Gilles Archambault, Jeannette Armstrong, Jill Frayne, Tomson Highway, Claude Jasmin, Robert Kroetsch, Jacques Poulin, Aritha van Herk and Paul Villeneuve, to name but a few. Studying a diversity of road narratives from Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois and Indigenous populations not only demonstrates the existence of a very specific road genre, but is also revelatory of very diverse and often conflicting perceptions of nationhood. It is these expressions of sovereignty that are integral to ongoing discussions of reconciliation and decolonization. ER -