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Ephemeral territories : representing nation, home, and identity in Canada / Erin Manning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manning, Erin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Canadian.
- Nationalism--Canada.
- Nationalism.
- Home.
- Social aspects.
- Human territoriality.
- Discourse analysis.
- Canada.
- Political culture--Canada.
- Political culture.
- Discourse analysis--Canada.
- Human territoriality--Canada.
- Home--Social aspects--Canada.
- Regionalism--Canada.
- Regionalism.
- Canada--Politics and government--1980-.
- Politics and government.
- Canada--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Canada--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- What does it mean to be at home? In a critical engagement with notions of territory, identity, racial difference, separatism, multiculturalism, and homelessness, this book delves into the question of what it means to belong--in particular, what it means to be at home in Canada. Ephemeral Territories weaves together many narratives and representations of Canadian identity--from political philosophy and cultural theory to art and films such as Srinivas Krishna's Lulu, Clement Virgo's Rude, and Charles Biname's Eldorado--to develop and complicate familiar views of identity and selfhood. Canadian identity has historically been linked to a dual notion of culture traceable to the French and English strains of Canada's colonial past. Erin Managing subverts this binary through readings that shift our attention from nationalist constructions of identity and territory to a more radical and pluralizing understanding of the political. As she brings together issues specific to Canada (such as Quebec separatism and Canadian landscape painting) and concerns that are more transnational (such as globalization and immigration), Manning emphasizes the truly cross-cultural nature of the problems of racism, gender discrimination, and homelessness. Thus this impassioned reading of Canadian texts also makes an important contribution to philosophical, cultural, and political discourses across the globe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0816639248
- 0816639256
- OCLC:
- 50511369
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