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Canadian cultural poesis : essays on Canadian culture / Garry Sherbert, Annie Gerin, and Sheila Petty, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
- Cultural studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and culture--Canada.
- Mass media and culture.
- Arts and society--Canada.
- Arts and society.
- Minorities--Canada.
- Minorities.
- Canada--Civilization.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (541 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How do we make culture and how does culture make us? Canadian Cultural Poesis takes a comprehensive approach toward Canadian culture from a variety of provocative perspectives. Centred on the notion of culture as social identity, it offers original essays on cultural issues of urgent concern to Canadians: gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism. From a broad range of disciplines, contributors consider these issues in the contexts of media, individual and national identity, language, and cultural dissent. Providing an excellent introduction to current debates
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Poetics of Canadian Culture; I: Media and Its (Dis) Contents; II: Performing and Disrupting Identities; III: (Dis) Locating Language; IV: Cultural Dissidence; Bibliography; Biographical Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610377527
- 9781280377525
- 1280377526
- 9780889209107
- 0889209103
- 9781423761082
- 1423761081
- OCLC:
- 65173944
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