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The purpose of this paper, thus is to make a case for the inclusion Irene Bird’s Waste Heritage in the repertoire of modernist works in North America. The various criticism of Canadian literature as not having a modernist era needs to be debunked. The false assertion that Canadian literature moved straight from the Victorian era to a postmodernist face is probably due to the difficulty of defining what modernism is. The evolution and the expansion of the term modernism makes it imperative for one to reappraise the creative works of Irene Bird (Waste Heritage) and Sheila Watson (Double Hook) as modernist. An attempt to include Waste Heritage in the new modernist discourse of global literature by looking at the experimental way by which Baird used documentary modernism. The sustainability of a growing modern society vis-à-vis modernism, and the resistance of capitalism in Baird’s narrative would be used to make a case for Baird’s modernism. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: April 16, 2018\u003Cbr>Accepted: July 25, 2018\u003Cbr>Published: October 31, 2018\u003Cbr>Volume: 9 Issue: 5\u003Cbr>Advance access: August 2018 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Modernist era,\u003Cbr>Canadian literature,\u003Cbr>Experimental,\u003Cbr>Waste Heritage,\u003Cbr>Expansion |  |\n\nIn many ways, Irene Baird’s 1939 classic Waste Heritage is beyond fiction. Events in the novel occurred in Vancouver and Victoria during the Depression era in the 30s. The sitdowns that occurred in this era of great suffering were significant in Canadian history. The challenges faced by a group of unemployed people who found it difficult to secure a job anda decent life evoked some emotions amongst sympathizers. The leftist communist also used this opportunity to advocate for their socialist ideology. One can hardly argue that Baird was politically neutral, despite her objective documentation of the travails of the sit-downers. Her experimental style of social documentary is something worth mentioning, as she gave a voice to the voiceless. Hill notes that “Few if any early twentieth-century Canadian novelist match Baird’s stylistic rigor”(Hill ix) . Her singular plot shows the seriousness and the urgency of her documentation. Published just before the calamitous World War II, Waste Heritage did not get the kind of reception it should have received. With the continuing expansion of the term modernism, an inclusion of social commentaries that capture the experience of the unemployed during the Depression era is necessary. The various criticism of Canadian literature as not having a modernist era needs to be debunked. The false assertion that Canadian literature moved straight from the Victorian era to a postmodernist face is probably due to the difficulty of defining what modernism  \nis. The obliteration of Canadian modernist fiction by Robert Kroetsch—“Canadian literature evolved directly from Victorian into Postmodern (1)—and reasserted by Glen Willmott— “a link between Canadian and modernist works is lacking”(5)—needs to be put aside now. The term modernism keeps evolving over the years. It seems to encompass our whole modern experience.“Modernism is still ongoing and can’t be reduced to a simple definition”(Mao and Walkowitz 737) . We can’t also restrict it to a myopic view. An attempt will be made here to support the inclusion of Waste Heritage i","cbCaihVLVXXKQxuy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihVLVXXKQxuy","pdf",303346,"English","# Abstract\n## Modernism and Canadian literary history\n## Waste Heritage as experimental documentary modernism\n## Capitalism, society, and critical reappraisal","[{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main purpose regarding modernist literature?\",\"answer\":\"To support the inclusion of Irene Bird’s Waste Heritage in the repertoire of modernist works in North America and to challenge claims about Canada lacking a modernist era.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author criticize the Victorian-to-postmodern narrative about Canadian literature?\",\"answer\":\"Because the assertion is linked to the difficulty of defining modernism, and the paper argues modernism’s evolution expands what should count as modernist.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper connect Baird’s style to its modernist argument?\",\"answer\":\"It frames Baird’s experimental style of social documentary as documentary modernism, using that approach to examine capitalism’s resistance and social tensions during the Depression era.\"}]","An Experimental Documentary - Making a Case for Baird’s Modernism | PDF",1792068259]