Northern Love: An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity (Au by Paul Nonnekes

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By Paul Nonnekes

In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural concept in pursuit of a particular belief of a Canadian masculinity. In shut discussions of novels via Rudy Wiebe ( A Discovery of Strangers ) and Robert Kroetsch ( the guy from the Creeks ), Nonnekes levels from Hegel to Lacan, and Butler and Kristeva to ?i?ek, eliciting an evolving perception of affection attribute of the Canadian cultural imaginary.

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From one loss to another. Two Tetsot’ine hunters have been killed and the distant lake has not yet given them back. ” (63) The Tetsot’ine were overwhelmed with bellows and weeping and screams … with lodgepoles being broken and skins ripped, kettles crushed, axes splintered, dogs throats being slit, and everything, any thing or animal that came to hand, smashed and torn and bleeding, being flung everywhere into the lake. The small island blazed with the necessity of destruction. The Yellowknives The Imaginary 41 were attacking their canoes, breaking the very guns with which they were to hunt.

Back’s characterizations of the Tetsot’ine men and the Canadian men are reproduced, in slightly different form, by his commander, Sir John Franklin. ” (59) These comments indicate the extent to which the traditional Tetsot’ine male hunter throws a wrench in the master-slave drama. The Canadian men seem to be more open to a commonly understood expression of the master-slave drama. The Canadian men can work efficiently. And they can produce in such a way that the English can consume. Franklin’s assessment is that the Tetsot’ine men do not seem to be able to produce like the Canadian men do.

73) Men and big words. Broadface and Back are alike as men. As Back stares at her, Greenstockings thinks of the time he tried to take her. Back, like all the other men, would like to take her. ” (74) Yet, Back’s phallic power is The Imaginary 43 like Broadface’s words, powerless, helpless before the knife. Or so Greenstockings hopes. Greenstockings hopes the English are dead before they kill everything here. ” (75) They bring along all this stuff, attached to their possessions which keep them from experiencing radical loss.

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