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Comparing Canada and the Americas - From Roots to Transcultural Networks (Hardcover, New edition)
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Comparing Canada and the Americas - From Roots to Transcultural Networks (Hardcover, New edition)
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Comparing Canada and the Americas: From Roots to Transcultural
Networks covers the Americas in a comparative perspective spanning
from the 19th century to the 21st century. It explores
socio-cultural dynamics changing considerably in the Americas,
which are progressively shedding their original fascination for
Europe and slowly recognizing the importance of Indigenous,
Afro-descendants, and immigrant cultures. The Americas have many
dynamics in common, such as the presence of shared dualistic
paradigms, like civilization/barbarism, which is a synonym for
self/others. From the invention of the Nation States to
globalization, the valorization of taking roots has transformed
into the valorization of the legitimacy of geo-symbolic
displacements. A comparative study of Canada, Quebec, Latin
America, the Caribbean, and the USA reveals both the exclusions and
the inclusions that, in literary, artistic, and media productions
as well as political essays, are founded on the opposition between
interior and exterior. The current era has seen the displacement of
these oppositions within the context of the recognition of the
others. This recognition is rooted in multicultural, intercultural,
and transcultural perspectives. In the current networked and
complex contemporary world, literary, artistic, political, and
media texts go beyond dichotomous oppositions and historical master
narratives legitimating exclusions. Instead, they valorize
"chameleoning" and the surprise of encounters with different
cultures, thus creating new perspectives linked to a
techno-cultural and democratic future based on the desire to share
and to belong to oneself.
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