Overlooking Saskatchewan - Minding the Gap (Paperback)

When Canadians think of Saskatchewan--if they think of it at all--they think: flat and boring; a place to drive through, fly-over, or overlook; a mindless gap between the burgeoning cities to the east and to the west.
Yet thanks to its damn-the-critics spirit, Saskatchewan is the birthplace of Canadian socialism, Medicare, and public funding for the arts, creating the foundations of Canada's national identity. It is impossible to imagine Canada without these things and equally as impossible to imagine another part of the country filling Saskatchewan's singular role in the development of the nation.
But within the country's narrative, Saskatchewan continues to be on the margins. In "Overlooking Saskatchewan," twenty-two writers articulate the power and the frustrations of this image, while revealing how the citizens of Saskatchewan continue to lead the way in the creation of culture and the nation's sense of self.