At Face Value, Second Edition: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White by Don Akenson 9780228012412 0228012414

At Face Value, Second Edition: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White Don Akenson – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780228012405, 0228012406, 9780228012412, 0228012414

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0228012414
• ISBN 13: 9780228012412
• Author: Don Akenson

At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada’s post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the archival record, it nevertheless diverges on one crucial point, reimagining White as a woman named Eliza McCormack. In this Canadian take on Moll Flanders, Don Akenson constructs a past in which people felt free to live in the gender of their own choosing, revealing the assumptions with which gender labels are freighted and the self-empowerment available to those who reject them. Following Eliza from her birth in 1832, amid the Irish cholera panic, At Face Value recounts her blacksmithing apprenticeship, a difficult passage to Canada, an unconventional marriage, and the peaks and valleys of her political career. In Eliza, Akenson offers readers a correction to the male-dominated historical record and an unforgettable literary heroine. Shortlisted for the Trillium Prize when it was released in 1990, this classic Canadian novel has only gained relevance in the thirty years since. At Face Value offers a window into the past and a mirror for the present.

Table contents:

PART ONE Donegal’s Own
1 The Real World
2 Mumming
3 Hard Roads
4 Rites of Passage
PART TWO New Dimensions
5 I Blush to Remember
6 Prospecting
7 Hard Graft
8 Emancipation
PART THREE My Own Man
9 Home and Hearth
10 Civic Sense
11 Gathering Force
12 The People’s Choice
13 Loyalties
PART FOUR Changing Fortunes
14 Lapses
15 Assay
16 Postscript

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