{"product_id":"challenging-addiction-in-canadian-literature-and-classrooms-hardback-9781442631960","title":"Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms (Hardback) 9781442631960","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChallenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCara Fabre (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442631960\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 November 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fabre\u0026amp;#x2019;s analyses of [six Canadian novels from 1983 to 2007] are challenging and thought-provoking, especially her detailed considerations of the roles social class and consumer capitalism play in these narratives of addiction and self-harm.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Wendy Roy, University of Sasketchewan (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the richly interdisciplinary study, \u003ci\u003eChallenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms\u003c\/i\u003e, Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its many forms contributes to common assumptions about the causes, and personal and social implications, of addiction. Recent fictional depictions of addiction significantly refute the idea that addiction is caused by poor individual choices or solely by disease through the connections the authors draw between substance use and poverty, colonialism, and gender-based violence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith particular interest in the pervasive myth of the \"Drunken Indian\", Fabre asserts that these novels reimagine addiction as social suffering rather than individual pathology or moral failure. Fabre builds on the growing body of humanities research that brings literature into active engagement with other fields of study including biomedical and cognitive behavioural models of addiction, medical and health policies of harm reduction, and the practices of Alcoholics Anonymous. The book further engages with critical pedagogical strategies to teach critical awareness of stereotypes of addiction and to encourage the potential of literary analysis as a form of social activism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reading and Teaching Addiction as Social Suffering\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Ideological Tropes of Contemporary Addiction Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Poverty, Individualism, and the Meaningful Uses of Alcohol and Drugs in Christy Ann Conlin\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eHeave\u003c\/i\u003e and Heather O\u0026amp;#x2019;Neill\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003elullabies for little criminals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Anorexia and the Production of Economically Oriented Subjects in Ibi Kaslik\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eSkinny\u003c\/i\u003e and Kevin Patterson\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eConsumption\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Dismantling the Myth of the Drunken Indian through Beatrice Culleton Mosionier\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eIn Search of April Raintree\u003c\/i\u003e and Eden Robinson\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eMonkey Beach\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: From Innocence to Accountability\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52588178538776,"sku":"9781442631960","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/challenging-addiction-in-canadian-literature-and-classrooms-hardback-9781442631960","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}