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Book SynopsisThis book traces literary representations of small-town Ontario in the last century and concludes that small-town Ontario takes the form of whatever is needed by the urban narrator who recalls it.
Trade Review"Ryan Porter’s insightful study, You Can’t Get There From Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction, observes the extent to which the canonical rural Ontario writing that participates in the small-town myth is produced from an urban vantage point." -- André Narbonne *
American Review of Canadian Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Projecting Difference − The Heritage of Small-Town and Rural Ontario 1 Rural Past and Urban Present: Landscape as Time 2 Saying Goodbye to Mariposa: Rebutting the Small-Town Convention 3 Memory and Departure Part One: Synthesizing Memory – The Artist as Community Part Two: Departure, Return, Departure 4 Past Dependencies and Consolatory Histories Conclusion: Reflecting on Nostalgia’s Restoration Works Cited and Consulted Index
