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New
Moon at Batoche:
Reflections on
the Urban Prairieby:
George Melnyk
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"New Moon at Batoche
tells, with bare frankness and in a lovely transparent prose, where
the last 30 years have led one passionate Western Canadian. This
engaging piece of intellectual autobiography will interest readers
who want to understand how the political, personal, and artistic
realms continue to intertwine in Canada's West."
- Harry Vandervlist, Quill & Quire
The essays in New
Moon at Batoche look back at 30 years of western Canadian
identity and alienation through literature, politics, history, and
personal confession.
Contents of the Book:
Heidegger at Batoche: Postmodernism in Western Canadian Writing
A discussion of the interplay between regional and international
forces in Western Canadian writing (examining the work of Kroetsch,
Kostash, van Herk and Wah)
Am Butler: Notes for an Autobiographical Long Poem
Notes about an imaginary autobiographical poem by William Francis
Butler, author of the nineteenth-century Western classic, The
Great Lone Land
Identity and the Western Writer: Literary Objects and
Literary Saints
A look at how a writer’s identity is formed through memory and
upbringing and how those factors create a personal mythology
Why I Am Not a Good Ukrainian: A Family Fable
A provocative look at ethnic identity grappling with regional and
national loyalties
The Five City-States of the West: A Prairie Fantasy
An argument for the re-arrangement of Western Canada into
city-states
The Urban Prairie: Between Jerusalem and Babylon
A praise of the nature found in urban environments in opposition to
the view that only rural life escapes sterility
Coming to Matador: Dreams of the Soil
An examination of the failure of a cooperative farming community in
Saskatchewan -- a reflection on community in an age of individualism
On Being a Self-styled Guru of Western Regionalism: An Untrue
Confession
Thoughts on the demise of the author’s ideology of “radical
regionalism” and the internal contradictions that led to his
replacement of a public identity with a private one
Rivers of the Mind: Praying to Water
An essay in praise of the rivers that flow through Western Canadian
cities and their importance to the mythology of the region
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