The Comforts of Home: Sex Workers and the Canadian War Novel
Canadian cultural memory of the First World War is conspicuously asexual considering Canadians had among the highest rates for venereal disease in the British Expeditionary Force. There is an inherited reticence to discuss soldiers’ sex lives. There is no such silence in Canadian war novels. In thes...
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Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies
2016
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| Résumé: | Canadian cultural memory of the First World War is conspicuously asexual considering Canadians had among the highest rates for venereal disease in the British Expeditionary Force. There is an inherited reticence to discuss soldiers’ sex lives. There is no such silence in Canadian war novels. In these novels, sex workers facilitate the forging of a distinctly domestic space. Indicative of the persistent schism between the front and the home-front, however, this proxy space inevitably becomes untenable and the relationship between soldier and sex worker comes to stand in for the fraught relationship between soldier and home-front and vice versa. |
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