Oh Canadiana? Atlantic Canada, Joel Thomas Hynes, and Heroin Realism

The essay locates Joel Thomas Hynes’s We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017), narrated by the social outcaste Johnny, in an international “heroin realism” tradition. Hynes, styled as Canada’s “bad boy” author, thus evoking his emotional ties to his protagonist, situates Johnny on the margi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Polley, Jason S.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan 2020
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Online Access:http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2020-0020