Canada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally
between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent
one (the United States), as well as on the terrain of First Nations
communities. Poised between historical and metaphorical empires and
operating within the conditions of incomplete modernity and
economic and cultural dependency, Canada has generated a body of
cultural criticism and theory, which offers unique insights into
the dynamics of both center and periphery. The reader brings
together for the first time in one volume recent writing in
Canadian cultural studies and work by significant Canadian cultural
analysts of the postwar era.
Including essays by anglophone, francophone, and First Nations
writers, the reader is divided into three parts, the first of which
features essays by scholars who helped set the agenda for cultural
and social analysis in Canada and remain important to contemporary
intellectual formations: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and
Anthony Wilden in communications theory; Northrop Frye in literary
studies; George Grant and Harold Innis in a left-nationalist
tradition of critical political economy; Fernand Dumont and
Paul-emile Borduas in Quebecois national and political culture; and
Harold Cardinal in native studies.
The volume's second section showcases work in which contemporary
authors address Canada's problematic and incomplete nationalism;
race, difference, and multiculturalism; and modernity and
contemporary culture. The final section includes excerpts from
federal policy documents that are especially important to
Canadians' conceptions of their social, political, and cultural
circumstances. The reader opens with a foreword by Fredric Jameson
and concludes with an afterword in which the Quebecois scholar Yves
Laberge explores the differences between English-Canadian cultural
studies and the prevailing forms of cultural analysis in
francophone Canada.
"Contributors." Ian Angus, Himani Bannerji, Jody Berland,
Paul-emile Borduas, Harold Cardinal, Maurice Charland, Stephen
Crocker, Ioan Davies, Fernand Dumont, Kristina Fagan, Gail
Faurschou, Len Findlay, Northrop Frye, George Grant, Rick Gruneau,
Harold Innis, Fredric Jameson, Yves Laberge, Jocelyn Letourneau,
Eva Mackey, Lee Maracle, Marshall McLuhan, Katharyne Mitchell,
Sourayan Mookerjea, Kevin Pask, Rob Shields, Will Straw, Imre
Szeman, Serra Tinic, David Whitson, Tony Wilden
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