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Selves and Subjectivities

Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture

Édité par Manijeh Mannani & Veronica Thompson
Catégories: Études littéraires, Biographies et études littéraires
Éditeur: Athabasca University Press
Paperback : 9781926836492, 276 pages, Novembre 2012
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Table des matières

Introduction 1  / Manijeh Mannani and Veronica
Thompson

A Semiotic Reading of Hédi Bouraoui’s The Woman Between
the Lines 13 / Elizabeth Dahab

Mourning Lost “Others” in Ronnie Burkett’s
Happy 39 / Janne Cleveland

Putting an End to Recycled Violence in Colleen Wagner’s
The Monument 69 / Gilbert McInnis

Representations of the Self and the Other in Canadian Intercultural
Theatre 95 / Anne Nothof

Pulling Her Self Together: Daphne Marlatt’s Ana
Historic 115 / Veronica Thompson

“New, Angular Possibilities”: Redefining Ethnicity
Through Transcultural Exchanges in Marusya Bociurkiw’s The
Children of Mary 151 / Dana Patrascu-Kingsley

The Elegiac Loss of the English- Canadian Self and the End of the
Romantic Identification with the Aboriginal Other in Leonard
Cohen’s Beautiful Losers 175 / Jesse Rae
Archibald-Barber

Playing the Role of the Tribe: The Aesthetics of Appropriation in
Canadian Aboriginal Hip Hop 207 / Thor Polukoshko

Toward a Theory of the Dubject: Doubling and Spacing the Self in
Canadian Media Culture 235 / Mark A. McCutcheon

List of Contributors 265

The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.

La description

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 linguistic diversity, Selves and Subjectivities offers an exciting new contribution to the multivocal dialogue surrounding the Canadian sense of identity.