Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms Fabre Hardback

Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and ClassroomsAuthor(s): Cara Fabre\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442631960, 978-1442631960\nSynopsis\nIn the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms, Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its many forms contributes to common assumptions about the causes, and personal and social implications, of addiction. Recent fictional depictions of addiction significantly refute the idea that addiction is caused by poor individual choices or solely by disease through the connections the authors draw between substance use and poverty, colonialism, and gender-based violence.\n\n With particular interest in the pervasive myth of the \""Drunken Indian\"", Fabre asserts that these novels reimagine addiction as social suffering rather than individual pathology or moral failure. Fabre builds on the growing body of huma.