The Foreigner

A Tale of Saskatchewan

By Ralph Connor
Afterword by Daniel Coleman
Categories: Literature & Language Studies, Canadian Literature
Series: Early Canadian Literature
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Paperback : 9781554589449, 312 pages, April 2014
Ebook (PDF) : 9781554589456, 312 pages, April 2014
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781554589463, 312 pages, April 2014

Description

The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular Christianity” recurring in Connor’s popular Western tales. Daniel Coleman’s afterword considers the text’s departure from Connor’s established fiction formulas and provides a unique framework for understanding its depiction of difference.