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Title Selves and subjectivities : reflections on Canadian arts and culture / edited by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson.

Publication Info. Edmonton, AB : AU Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Selves and Subjectivities / Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson -- A Semiotic Reading of Hédi Bouraoui's The Woman Between the Lines / Elizabeth Dahab -- Mourning Lost " others" in Ronnie Burkett's Happy / Janne Cleveland -- Putting an end to Recycled Violence in Colleen Wagner's The Monument / Gilbert McInnis -- Representations of the self and the other Canadian Intercultural theatre / Anne Nothof -- Pulling Herself together: Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic / Veronica Thompson -- "New, Angular Possibilities": Redefining Ethnicity Through Transcultural Exchanges in Marusya Bociurkiw's The Children of Mary / Dana Patrascu-Kingsley -- Elegiac Loss of the English-Canadian Self and the End of the Romantic Identification with the Aboriginal Other in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers / Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber -- Playing the Role of the Tribe: The Aesthetics of Appropriation in Canadian Aboriginal Hip Hop / Thor Polukoshko -- Toward a Theory of the Dubject: Doubling and Spacing the Self in Canadian Media Culture / Mark A. McCutcheon.
Summary "Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifaceted and contested space only tenuously linked to traditional concepts of the nation. As Canadians, we are endlessly defining ourselves, seeking to locate our sense of self in relation to some Other. By examining how writers and performers have conceptualized and negotiated issues of personal identity in their work, the essays collected in Selves and Subjectivities investigate emerging representations of self and other in contemporary Canadian arts and culture. Included are essays on iconic poet and musician Leonard Cohen, Governor General award-winning playwright Colleen Wagner, feminist poet and novelist Daphne Marlatt, film director David Cronenberg, poet and writer Hédi Bouraoui, author and media scholar Marusya Bociurkiw, puppeteer Ronnie Burkett, and the Aboriginal rap group War Party. As critic Diana Brydon has argued, contemporary Canadian writers are 'not transcending nation but resituating it.' Drawing together themes of gender and sexuality, trauma and displacement, performativity, and lingusistic diversity, Selves and Subjectivities offers an exciting new contribution to the multivocal dialogue surrounding the Canadian sense of identity"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Arts, Canadian.
Arts, Canadian.
National characteristics, Canadian, in art.
National characteristics, Canadian, in art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Thompson, Veronica, 1963- editor.
Mannani, Manijeh, 1964- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Selves and subjectivities. Edmonton : AU Press, ©2012 9781926836492 (DLC) 2012545772 (OCoLC)745971052
ISBN 9781926836508
1926836502
9781926836515 (electronic book)
1926836510 (electronic book)
9781283907736 (MyiLibrary)
1283907739 (MyiLibrary)
9781926836492 (paper)
1926836499 (paper)