| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "Ghosts Trying to Find Their Clothes" -- The Strange Career of the Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourse and Imperial History -- Things Not Named: Bachelors, Dirty Laundry, and the Canadian Pacific Railway -- Banff National Park: Rangers on the Mountain Frontier -- Playing Indian: Indigenous Responses to "Indianness" -- Conclusion: Living in "Haunted Places." |
| Summary |
"In this richly illustrated book, Margot Francis explores how whiteness and indigeneity are articulated through four icons of Canadian identity--the beaver, the railway, the wilderness of Banff National Park, and 'Indianness'--and the contradictory and contested meanings they evoke. These seemingly benign, even kitschy, images, she argues, are haunted by ideas about race, masculinity, and sexuality that circulated during the formative years of Anglo-Canadian nationhood. Juxtaposing these nostalgic images with the work of contemporary Canadian artists, she investigates how everyday objects can be re-imagined to challenge ideas about history, memory, and national identity"--Back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Canada.
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Nationalism. |
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Canada. |
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Patriotism -- Canada.
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Patriotism. |
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National characteristics, Canadian.
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National characteristics, Canadian. |
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Emblems, National -- Canada.
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Canada -- Symbolic representation.
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Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
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Emblems, National. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Canada. |
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Indigenous peoples. |
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Francis, Margot, 1958- Creative subversions. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011 9780774820257 (OCoLC)744332340 |
| ISBN |
9780774820271 (electronic book) |
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0774820276 (electronic book) |
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9780774820288 |
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0774820284 |
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9780774820257 |
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077482025X |
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