Painting the Maple
Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada
Description
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Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of race
and gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and health
care. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial,
and critical theory in a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses both
high and popular forms of culture, the deliberation of policy and its
execution, and social movements as well as individual authors and
texts. The contributors establish connections among discourses of race,
gender, and nation-building that have conditioned the formation of
Canada for more than one hundred years. At times provocative,
Painting the Maple illuminates the challenges that lie ahead
for all Canadians who aspire to create a better future in a reimagined
nation.
Reviews
A collaborative tour de force from a coterie of scholars at the University of British Columbia . .. The debates and issues raised by Painting the Maple deserve the attention of all interested Canadians and should not be restricted to academic readers alone.
- Valerie J. Korinek
Such a diverse range of essays is likely to be of most interest to practitioners of interdisciplinarity . .. Others will find the theoretical discussions of the construction of Canada as an exclusive nation, characterized by racial and gender discrimination at worst and cultural insensitivity at best, instructive for any branch of Canadian studies.
- Judith Fingard