Canadian Cultural Studies

by Mookerjea, Sourayan; Szeman, Imre; Faurschou, Gail; Jameson, Fredric

• ISBN13: 9780822344162
• ISBN10: 0822344165
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
• More Book Details

Summary

Canada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent one (the United States), as well as on the terrain of First Nations communities. Poised between historical and metaphorical empires and operating within the conditions of incomplete modernity and economic and cultural dependency, Canada has generated a body of cultural criticism and theory, which offers unique insights into the dynamics of both center and periphery. The reader brings together for the first time in one volume recent writing in Canadian cultural studies and work by significant Canadian cultural analysts of the postwar era.Including essays by anglophone, francophone, and First Nations writers, the reader is divided into three parts, the first of which features essays by scholars who helped set the agenda for cultural and social analysis in Canada and remain important to contemporary intellectual formations: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and Anthony Wilden in communications theory; Northrop Frye in literary studies; George Grant and Harold Innis in a left-nationalist tradition of critical political economy; Fernand Dumont and Paul-Eacute;mile Borduas in Quebecois national and political culture; and Harold Cardinal in native studies.The volumers"s second section showcases work in which contemporary authors address Canadars"s problematic and incomplete nationalism; race, difference, and multiculturalism; and modernity and contemporary culture. The final section includes excerpts from federal policy documents that are especially important to Canadiansrs" conceptions of their social, political, and cultural circumstances. The reader opens with a foreword by Fredric Jameson and concludes with an afterword in which the Quebecois scholar Yves Laberge explores the differences between English-Canadian cultural studies and the prevailing forms of cultural analysis in francophone Canada.Contributors. Ian Angus, Himani Bannerji, Jody Berland, Paul-Eacute;mile Borduas, Harold Cardinal, Maurice Charland, Stephen Crocker, Ioan Davies, Fernand Dumont, Kristina Fagan, Gail Faurschou, Len Findlay, Northrop Frye, George Grant, Rick Gruneau, Harold Innis, Fredric Jameson, Yves Laberge, Jocelyn Leacute;tourneau, Eva Mackey, Lee Maracle, Marshall McLuhan, Katharyne Mitchell, Sourayan Mookerjea, Kevin Pask, Rob Shields, Will Straw, Imre Szeman, Serra Tinic, David Whitson, Tony Wilden

Author Biography

Sourayan Mookerjea is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. Imre Szeman is the Senator McMaster Chair of Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. GAIL FAURSCHOU is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Editors' Note	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction
Between Empires: On Cultural Studies in Canada	p. 1
Canadian Cultural Theory: Origins
A Plea for Time	p. 37
The Military Implications of the American Constitution	p. 54
Canada as Counter-Environment	p. 71
The Medium Is the Message	p. 87
Refus Global	p. 100
Conclusion to the Literary History of Canada	p. 111
City of the End of Things	p. 129
Canadian Fate and Imperialism	p. 145
In Defence of North America	p. 160
Of a Hesitant Quebec	p. 173
The Buckskin Curtain: The Indian-Problem Problem	p. 200
The Old Question, but Not the Old Answers	p. 210
Contemporary Canadian Cultural Studies
Nationalism and Canada	p. 229
The Social Identity of English Canada	p. 231
"Remembering (from) Where You're Going": Memory as Legacy and Inheritance	p. 248
The True North Strong and Free	p. 276
Late Nationalism: The Case of Quebec	p. 289
Technological Nationalism	p. 308
Race, Difference, and Multiculturalism	p. 325
On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and the State of "Canada"	p. 327
In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada	p. 344
Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in a Multicultural Nation: Contests over Truth in the Into the Heart of Africa Controversy	p. 366
Another Side of Me	p. 383
Tewatatha:wi: Aboriginal Nationalism in Taiaiake Alfred's Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto	p. 390
Always Indigenize! The Radical Humanities in the Postcolonial Canadian University	p. 405
Modernity and Contemporary Culture	p. 423
Hauled Kicking and Screaming into Modernity: Non-Synchronicity and Globalization in Post-War Newfoundland	p. 425
Theorizing Toronto	p. 441
Shifting Boundaries, Lines of Descent: Cultural Studies and Institutional Realignments	p. 457
Writing on the Border	p. 472
Communities, Civic Boosterism, and Fans	p. 488
Global Vistas and Local Reflections: Negotiating Place and Identity in Vancouver Television	p. 501
Government Documents
Preface to Government Documents	p. 515
Government of Canada From the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in Arts, Letters and Sciences (Massey Commission)	p. 518
Government of Canada From the Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (Bi and Bi Commission)	p. 533
Government of Canada From Multiculturalism and the Government of Canada (Canadian Government Pamphlet)	p. 548
Afterword
Are Cultural Studies an Anglo-Saxon Paradigm? Reflections on Cultural Studies in Francophone Networks	p. 561
Contributors	p. 581
Index of Names	p. 585
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.