'A new history for the new millennium': Canada: A People's History

Canadian Historical Review

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-109

  Dick, Lyle ^a  

^a PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 60949781379     PISSN: 00083755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/can.2004.0020     Document Type: Review

References (36)

1. See the CBC press release 'Canada: A People's History Launches Season Two with Taking the West, September 30 on CBC - TV,' 1 Sept. 2001, and 'Season Two Fact Sheet' (http://history.cbc.ca/history)
2. Gene Allen, 'The Professionals and the Public: Responses to Canada: A People's History,' Histoire Sociale/Social History 68 (Nov. 2001): 381
3. Among other examples, Granatstein expressed concern about a historical article he thought he read on Toronto's gay bath houses - an article apparently never published. Steven Maynard, "The Maple Leaf Forever: Sex, Canadian Historians and National History,' Journal of Canadian Studies 36, 2 (2001): 72
4. J.L. Granatstein, Who Killed Canadian History? (Toronto: HarperCollins 1998), 77, 79, 137. The term 'Resurrecting Canadian History' is Granatstein's title for his last chapter, in which various prescriptions for reviving the discipline are proffered
5. See, for example, Mikhail Bakhtin, "The Epic and the Novel,' in Michael Holquist, ed., The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press 1981), 3-38
6. Roland Barthes, 'The Discourse of History,' trans. Stephen Bann, Comparative Criticism 3 (1981): 7-20
7. Hayden White, 'The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality,' in The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press 1987)
8. and Robert F. Berkhofer Jr, Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard/Belknap 1995)
9. Roland Barthes, 'Semiology and Cinema,' in The Grain of the Voice: Interviews, 1962-1980, trans. Linda Coverdale (New York: Hill and Wang 1985), 31
10. Allen, "The Professionals and the Public,' 382
11. 'Step by Step: One Story: Many Perspectives,' in 'Behind the Scenes - About the TV Series' (http://history.cbc.ca/history)
12. John Berger, Ways of Seeing (New York: Viking Press 1973)
13. Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History (Toronto: Oxford University Press 1976), 2-3
14. Lyle Dick, 'A Growing Necessity for Canada: W.L. Morton's Centenary Series and the Forms of National History, 1955-80,' Canadian Historical Review 82, 2 (2001): 223-52
15. Gene Allen, 'Canadian History in Film: A Roundtable Discussion,' Canadian Historical Review 82, 2 (2001): 332
16. The treatment is reminiscent of George M. Wrong, Chester Martin, and Walter N. Sage, The Story of Canada (Toronto: The Ryerson Press 1929), which also presented Aboriginal people in a timeless state before the arrival of Europeans (3-6)
17. Bertrand Taithe and Tim Thornton, eds., Prophecy: The Power of Inspired Language in History, 1300-2000 (Phoenix Mill, Thripp, Stround, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing 1997)
18. M.H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (New York: W.W. Norton 1970)
19. Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Toronto: Academic Press Canada 1982)
20. Quoted in Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (London: Oxford University Press 1967), 56
21. See also Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, trans. Tom Conley (New York: Columbia University Press 1988), 346-7
22. Moshe Weinfeld, The Promise of the Land: The Inheritance of the Land of Canaan by the Israelites (Berkeley: University of California Press 1993), 4-5, 184
23. Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1957), 316
24. Frye, The Great Code, 89
25. Hayden White, "The Forms of Wildness: Archaeology of an Idea,' in Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press 1978), 150-82
26. For a discussion of the application of the dual image of the Noble Savage and the Wild Man in popular historical writing in Canada, see Lyle Dick, 'Renegade in Archives: Peter C. Newman and the Writing of Canadian Popular History,' Archivaria 22 (1986): 168-81
27. Lyle Dick, 'The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970,' Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, New Series, 2 (1991): 91-113
28. Gary Kinsman and Patricia Gentile, 'In the Interests of the State': The Anti-Gay, Anti-Lesbian National Security Campaign in Canada - A Preliminary Research Report (Sudbury, Ont.: Laurentian University 1998)
29. Erich Auerbach, 'Figura,' in Scenes from the Drama of European Literature (Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith 1973), 11-76
30. Dick, 'A Growing Necessity for Canada.' 248-52
31. Hayden White, 'Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Causation and Modernist Historicism,' in Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press 1999), 87-100
32. Covenantal explanations have seldom been applied to Canadian history but have a long tradition in the historiography of the United States. See David W. Noble, Historians against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1965)
33. and Ernest Lee Tuveson, Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1968)
34. Frank Kermode, 'Waiting for the End,' Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World (London: Blackwell 1995), 250-63
35. A recent celebratory survey of the CBCs first half-century, commissioned by the corporation, asserted: 'History's executive producer Mark Starowicz accepts that his fifteen-part [sic] series says a great deal about Canada and Canadians in the mid-90's. "The world was changing so rapidly," he says. "Globalization and open borders meant that the Canada we knew seemed to be slipping away before our eyes. Railways were shutting down. Airlines failing. The Quebec referendum made us wonder if there was going to be a Canada. At the same time the millennium was approaching and there was an idea we were packing for a long, uncertain voyage."' Stephen Cole, Here's Looking at Us: Celebrating Fifty Years of CBC-TV (Toronto 2002), 240-1
36. The term 'cultural industry' derives from the classic analysis of mass culture in Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, 'The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,' in Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr; trans. Edmund Jephcott (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2002), 94-136. The authors asserted that 'what is new in the phase of mass culture ... is the exclusion of the new.'