Canadian Suburban: Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction

Though a large proportion of Canadians live in suburban communities, the Canadian cultural imaginary is filled with other landscapes. The wilderness, the prairie, cityscapes, and small towns are the settings by which we define our nation, rather than the strip mall, the single-family home, and the developing subdivision, which for many are ubiquitous features of everyday life.

Canadian Suburban considers the cultures of suburbia as they are articulated in English Canadian fiction published f...