Description: Canadian fiction portal from Rick Sutcliffe's Arjay Enterprises
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Canadian fiction tends to be stereotyped by Canadians much as they stereotype themselves--self absorbed yet self-effacing, capitalist socialists, peace loving yet first class warriors, in a love-hate relationship with the government, the CBC, and their fellow citizens, proud of being Canadian, yet not sure what that means except that it isn't American, obsessed with living next door to and being influenced by an imperialist culture, yet clustering close to the U.S. border for as if for comfort and identity,
If Canadian culture lives by slogans, it is not the "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" espoused by neighbours to the south, but "peace, order, and good government", altogether different concepts that in part explain both culture and system of government. Perhaps to these three one could once have added "tolerance", though the term has been redefined in recent years from benign acceptance of differences to an aggressive demand for radical equality of values. These issues also play out in Canadian fict
Canadian authors often seek out American publishers for their mainstream fiction, and Canadian ones for what they term "literary works." Whatever this might mean for Canadian fiction sales, it exacerbates its duality. Like the Irish did for centuries, Canadian writers specialize in lost causes, whimsicality, ill-expressed longings, quaint rural scenes, and hopes for a better day. Perhaps this is a consequence of living next door to a superpower. Perhaps it is an artifact of Ireland's influence on Canada, fo