The Contemporary Meaning of Canadiana
Author : Scott Symons
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Furniture
ISBN :
The Strange Demise of British Canada
Author : Christian Paul Champion
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0773536906
Book Description
Did Canada come of age in the 1960s, or does it remain a British country?
The Strange Demise of British Canada
Author : C.P. Champion
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0773591052
Book Description
Examining cases such as the introduction of the Maple Leaf to replace the Canadian Red Ensign and Union Jack as the national flag, Champion shows that, despite what he calls Canada's "crisis of Britishness," Pearson and his supporters unwittingly perpetuated a continuing Britishness because they - and their ideals - were the product of a British world. Using a fascinating array of personal papers, memoirs, and contemporary sources, this ground-breaking study demonstrates the ongoing influence of Britishness in Canada and showcases the personalities and views of some of the country's most important political and cultural figures. An important study that provides a better understanding of Canada, The Strange Demise of British Canada also shows the lasting influence Britain has had on its former colonies across the globe.
The Culture of Contemporary Canada
Author : Julian Park
Publisher : Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
RE: Reading the Postmodern
Author : Robert David Stacey
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0776619233
Book Description
It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been especially strong in Canada, in part thanks to the country’s non-monolithic approach to history and its multicultural understanding of nationalism, which seems to align with the decentralized, plural, and open-ended pursuit of truth as a multiple possibility as outlined by Jean-François Lyotard. In fact, long before Lyotard published his influential work The Postmodern Condition in 1979, Canadian writers and critics were employing the term to describe a new kind of writing. RE: Reading the Postmodern marks a first cautious step toward a history of Canadian postmodernism, exploring the development of the idea of the postmodern and debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Author : Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802034526
Book Description
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Unreal Country
Author : Glenn Willmott
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773570349
Book Description
Modernism is one of the great manifold movements in literature and the arts. Responding with magnificent independence to inherited values and tastes, and with radical novelty to the future, varieties of modernism anxiously express both the ends of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of Postmodernism, and thus the feeling of a crisis that continues to haunt contemporary life. Modernity in Canada, stretching from the turn of the century to the 1950s, is a period marked by unprecedented urban and industrial growth, by urban and rural immigration from around the world, and by unique changes in power between regions, classes, races, and sexes. At the same time it is a period profoundly aware of the colonial past and its persistence, for good or ill, in the fragile economy and volatile culture of a new nation.
The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture
Author : Victoria Kannen
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1773381423
Book Description
An exclusively Canadian textbook, this collection investigates the relationships between identity, geography, and popular culture that are produced and consumed in this sprawling country. Expanding beyond the clichés of friendliness and snow, this text provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Canadian, both nationally and transnationally. Scholars look at historical subjects like Québécois identity and Indigenous self-representation and explore issues in contemporary media, including music, film, television, comic books, video games, and social media. From Drake to the Tragically Hip, Trailer Park Boys to The Amazing Race Canada, and poutine to maple syrup, mainstream icons and trends are studied in the interdisciplinary context of race, gender, sexuality, politics, and patriotism. Contributing to the location of Canadian popular culture, this unique resource will engage students and scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, and Canadian studies. FEATURES - Includes key concepts and theories and a glossary - Engages students with relatable historical and contemporary examples of Canadiana through a breadth of media, including television shows, websites, journals, celebrities, newspapers, literature, comic books, video games, music, and films - Ensures equal representation of a national and transnational Canada, which includes examples of race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, with particular attention to geographical intricacies that contain all provinces and territories
Splitting Images
Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Starting from the premise that Canadian culture offers "particularly fertile ground for the cultivation of doubleness," this book explores the numerous forms of irony observable in Canadian literature and visual arts. Individual chapters focus on the ironies of ethnicity and race, irony as a strategy for addressing Canada's colonial past, feminists' uses of irony, and a specific case of photography and the amplification of ironies in the work of artistic collectives such as Fastwurns and General Idea. The book concludes with an examination of the political power of irony.
Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture
Author : Renée Hulan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773569448
Book Description
By investigating mutually dependent categories of identity in literature that depicts northern peoples and places, Hulan provides a descriptive account of representative genres in which the north figures as a central theme - including autobiography, adventure narrative, ethnography, fiction, poetry, and travel writing. She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed, indigenous peoples. Reading against the background of contemporary ethnographic, literary, and cultural theory, Hulan maintains that the collective Canadian identity idealized in many works representing the north does not occur naturally but is artificially constructed in terms of characteristics inflected by historically contingent ideas of gender and race, such as self-sufficiency, independence, and endurance, and that these characteristics are evoked to justify the nationhood of the Canadian state.
