Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms

Author:   Cara Fabre
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
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9781442631960


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   17 November 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms


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In the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms, 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. With 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.

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Author:   Cara Fabre
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781442631960


ISBN 10:   1442631961
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   17 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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"""Fabre’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."" -- Wendy Roy, University of Sasketchewan * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *"


Fabre'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. -- Wendy Roy, University of Sasketchewan * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *


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Cara Fabre is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor.

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