{"id":45939,"date":"2016-05-29T00:53:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T00:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45939"},"modified":"2016-10-22T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:03:01","slug":"in-due-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45939","title":{"rendered":"In Due Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Due Season<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Wilfrid Laurier University Press<\/a>
\nMay 2016
\n375 pages
\nISBN13: 978-1-77112-071-5<\/p>\n

Christine van der Mark<\/strong> (1917\u20131970)<\/p>\n

Afterword by:<\/p>\n

Carole Gerson<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English Department
\nSimon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Janice Dowson<\/strong>, Lecturer in English literature and Academic Writing
\nSimon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley<\/em><\/p>\n

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First published in 1947, In Due Season<\/em> broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden southern Alberta<\/a> to a new life in the Peace River region<\/a>. Here her daughter Poppy grows up in a community characterized by harmonious interactions between the local M\u00e9tis<\/a> and newly arrived European settlers. Still, there is tension between mother and daughter when Poppy becomes involved with a M\u00e9tis lover. This novel expands the patriarchal canon of Canadian prairie fiction by depicting the agency of a successful female settler and, as noted by Dorothy Livesay<\/a>, was \u201cone of the first, if not the first Canadian novel wherein the plight of the Native Indian and the M\u00e9tis is honestly and painfully recorded.\u201d The afterword by Carole Gerson and Janice Dowson provides substantial information about author Christine van der Mark and situates her under-acknowledged book within the contexts of Canadian social, literary, and publishing history.<\/p>\n

Christine van der Mark (1917\u20131970) was born and raised in Calgary<\/a>. While teaching in rural Alberta schools, she attended the University of Alberta, receiving her B.A. in 1941 and her M.A. in Creative Writing in 1946. Much of her writing expressed sympathetic concern for the M\u00e9tis of Northern Alberta<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Due Season Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2016 375 pages ISBN13: 978-1-77112-071-5 Christine van der Mark (1917\u20131970) Afterword by: Carole Gerson, Professor of English Department Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Janice Dowson, Lecturer in English literature and Academic Writing Simon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley First published in 1947, In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,8,3015,15],"tags":[10061,23160,23161,1287],"class_list":["post-45939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-novels","tag-carole-gerson","tag-christine-van-der-mark","tag-janice-dowson","tag-wilfrid-laurier-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49568,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45939\/revisions\/49568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}