Canadian Cultural Poesis

Essays on Canadian Culture
Herausgeber: Sherbert, Garry; Petty, Sheila; Gérin, Annie

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Produktbeschreibung

How do we make culture and how does culture make us? Canadian Cultural Poesis takes a comprehensive approach toward Canadian culture from a variety of provocative perspectives. Centred on the notion of culture as social identity, it offers original essays on cultural issues of urgent concern to Canadians: gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism. From a broad range of disciplines, contributors consider these issues in the contexts of media, individual and national identity, language, and cultural dissent. Providing an excellent introduction to current debates in Canadian culture, Canadian Cultural Poesis will appeal not only to readers looking for an overview of Canadian culture but also to those interested in cultural studies and interdisciplinarity, as well as scholars in film, art, literature, sociology, communication, and womens studies. This book offers new insights into how we make and are made by Canadian culture, each essay contributing to this poetics, inventing new ways to welcome cultural differences of all kinds fo the Canadian cultural community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780889204867
• ISBN-10: 0889204861
• Artikelnr.: 27016174

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Canadian Cultural Poesis: Essays on Canadian Culture, edited by Garry
Sherbert, Annie Gérin, and Sheila Petty
List of Illustrations
Preface Garry Sherbert
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Poetics of Canadian Culture Garry Sherbert
I: Media and Its (Dis)Contents
My Grandmother's Violin Frances Dorsey
1. (Im)Possible Exchanges: The Arts of Counter-Surveillance Gary Genosko
2. Canadian Humour and National Culture: Move Over, Mr. Leacock Beverly
Rasporich
3. Collective Memory on the Airwaves: The Negotiation of Unity and
Diversity in a Troubled Canadian Nationalism Emily West
4. Framing the Local: Canadian Film Policy and the Problem of Place Zo
Druick
5. Framing Culture, Talking Race: Race, Gender, and Violence in the News
Media Yasmin Jiwani
II: Performing and Disrupting Identities
20 minute visualization: Sandee, Lee, Sandra, Seema Joanne Bristol
6. Marketing Ambivalence: Molson Breweries Go Postcolonial Cynthia Sugars
7. "The North" Intersecting Worlds and World Views Alastair Campbell and
Kirk Cameron
8. Dressed to Thrill: Costume, Body, and Dress in Canadian Performative Art
Jayne Wark
9. Figures of Otherness in Canadian Video Joanne Lalonde
10. Queerly Canadian: "Perversion Chic'' Cinema and (Queer) Nationalism in
English Canada Jason Morgan
III: (Dis)Locating Language
Pull/Apart Rachelle Viader Knowles
11. Out of Psychoanalysis: A Ficto-Criticism Monologue Jeanne Randolph
12. Some Imaginary Geographies in Quebec Fiction Ceri Morgan
13. L.M. Montgomery on Television: The Romance and Industry of Adaptation
Process Patsy Aspasia Kotsopoulos
14. The Use of "Fisher" in a Nova Scotian Fishing Community: A Theory of
Hegemony for a Complex Canadian Culture Carol Corbin
15. Thinking the Wonderful: After Rudolf Komorous, beside the Reveries
Martin Arnold
16. Maîtres Chez Nous: Public Art and Linguistic Identity in Quebec Annie
Gérin
IV: Cultural Dissidence
Belle Sauvage Lori Blondeau
17. Black History and Culture in Canada: A Celebration of Essence or
Presence Cecil Foster
18. Decolonizing Interpretation at the Fortress of Louisbourg National
Historic Site Erna L. Macleod
19. Culture and an Aboriginal Charter of Rights Eric Sherbert
20. Canadian Gothic: Multiculturalism, Indigeneity, and Gender in Prairie
Cinema Susan Lord
21. Through a Canadian Lens: Discourses of Nationalism and Aboriginal
Representation in Governmental Photographs Carol Payne
Bibliography
Biographical Notes
Index
Biographical Notes
Martin Arnold is a composer and writer based in Toronto. He has studied in
Canada and the Netherlands, where his teachers were Alfred Fisher, Frederic
Rzewski, John Cage, Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk, Rudolf Komorous,
Douglas Collinge, and Michael Longton. He holds a doctorate from the
University of Victoria. His compositions have been performed in Canada, the
United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Slovakia. He publishes
in the areas of music and art criticism.
Lori Blondeau is a performance artist based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She
is a PhD candidate at the University of Saskatchewan, where she also
teaches. In 1994 Blondeau co-founded, with Bradlee LaRocque, Tribe A Centre
for Evolving Aboriginal Media, Visual and Performing Arts. Lori's
performance and visual work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally. Her current work consists of a series of performances
based on memory, home, displacement, and decolonization.
Joanne Bristol's work investigates the interplay between art, science, and
history. The work in this book is part of her project, JoJo's School of
Aesthetics: Services in the Arts of Projection, Attention and Photography,
a series of performances involving shared activities and conversation with
audiences (see www.bentaerial.net). She also teaches at the Alberta College
of Art and Design.
Kirk Cameron was born in Whitehorse, Yukon, and has studied English and
history at Victoria University and Queens. He has published two books and a
number of articles on northern political development, the most recent book
(co-authored) being Northern Governments in Transition. He has worked for
the governments of Yukon, British Columbia, and Canada, and is currently
secretary to the Yukon Cabinet.
Alastair Campbell has studied history, anthropology, and semiotics in New
Zealand, Canada, and Italy and has taught anthropology and sociology
courses at the University of Ottawa. He has worked for the Assembly of
First Nations and the governments of Canada, Yukon, Northwest Territories,
and Nunavut. His work has entailed extensive analysis of Aboriginal and
northern issues, and the writing of policy and informational booklets.
Carol Corbin is an associate professor of communication at the University
College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia. She publishes in the areas of
community, ecology, and culture, and has edited three books related to the
island of Cape Breton, and a fourth on rhetoric and postmodernism with
Michael Calvin McGee. She is currently working on the modernist enterprise
in China from 1900 to 1949 and spent the fall of 2000 studying and teaching
in Beijing.
Frances Dorsey is an associate professor of art at the Nova Scotia College
of Art and Design in Halifax. Educated in Canada and the United States, her
studio practice is based primarily in textiles and printmaking. She
exhibits both nationally and internationally.
Zoe Druick is an assistant professor in the School of Communication, Simon
Fraser University, where she teaches film and media studies. She has
published in the area of Canadian film policy, with an emphasis on the
history of the National Film Board of Canada. She is currently completing a
book on the subject, The Surface of Society.
Cecil Foster is an author and scholar. He is an assistant professor in the
Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph. His
publications include A Place Called Heaven, The Meaning of Being Black in
Canada, and the forthcoming books, Where Race Does Not Matter: The New
Spirit of Modernity and Multiculturalism: Issues of Citizenship, Culture,
and Identity.
Gary Genosko teaches cultural sociology at Lakehead University. His books
include Baudrillard and Signs (1994), McLuhan and Baudrillard (1999),
Undisciplined Theory (1998), and Contest: Essays on Sports, Culture and
Politics (1999). He is editor of The Uncollected Baudrillard (2001),
Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments, 3 vols. (2001), and The
Guattari Reader (1996). He is general editor of The Semiotic Review of
Books.
Annie Gérin is a curator and assistant professor of art history and art
theory at the Department of Visual Arts, the University of Ottawa. Educated
in Canada, Russia, and the UK, her research interests encompass the areas
of Soviet art and propaganda, Canadian public art, and art on the World
Wide Web. She is especially concerned with art encountered by
non-specialized publics, outside the gallery space.
Yasmin Jiwani is a faculty member in the Department of Communications at
Concordia University. Prior to her move to Concordia, she was the executive
coordinator of the BC/Yukon Feminist Research, Education, Development and
Action (freda) Centre at Simon Fraser University.
Rachelle Viader Knowles is a visual artist working in a broad range of
contemporary media, including lens, time, and text-based installation.
Originally from the UK, Rachelle studied at Cardiff College of Art and the
University of Wales before moving to Canada in 1994 to study at the
University of Windsor. Recent solo exhibitions include: the MacKenzie Art
Gallery in Regina, Chapter Gallery in Wales, Peak Gallery in Toronto, and
the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. Rachelle Viader Knowles heads the
intermedia area in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Regina.
Patsy Aspasia Kotsopoulos is a doctoral candidate in communications at
Simon Fraser University. She is researching and writing her dissertation,
"Romance and Industry on the Road to Avonlea," for which she received a
SSHRC doctoral fellowship. She teaches film and interdisciplinary studies
at the University of Victoria.
Joanne Lalonde is a professor of art history at uqam and the director of
the undergraduate program. She received her doctorate in semiotics from
UQAM in 1999. Her research deals principally with the relationships between
art and technology, media art (Canadian video), and representations of
sexual and identitarian hybridization in contemporary art.
Susan Lord is an associate professor of film studies at Queen's University,
where she is also cross-appointed with the Institute of Women's Studies.
Her main teaching and research areas are feminist theory and film culture,
and cultural studies of media and technology. She has published on gender
and technology in Public and CineAction, as well as on feminist film
culture in several recent anthologies, and is writing a book on
multiculturalism, feminism, and the films of Anne Wheeler. She is currently
co-editing a collection of essays entitled Digital Aesthetics: Time,
Technology and the Cultures of Everyday Life, and another entitled Killing
Women: Gender, Representation, and Violence.
Erna Macleod is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include media
criticism and identity issues, particularly those related to Canadian
national identity. She is a lifelong resident of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia,
and has been employed as a tour guide at the Fortress of Louisbourg
National Historic Site for the past fifteen years.
Ceri Morgan received her doctorate from Southampton University in 2000. Her
thesis considers representations of space, place, and identity in the
contemporary francophone novel in Quebec. She is currently teaching at
Keele University in the United Kingdom.
Jason Morgan is a doctoral candidate in the Joint PhD Program in
Communication at Concordia University (in conjunction with the Université
de Montreal and the Université de Québec à Montréal). He has previously
received a master of arts in communication studies from the University of
Calgary. His current research focuses on the intersection of
representations of death with the body in contemporary culture.
Carol Payne is an assistant professor of art history at Carleton
University's School for Studies in Art and Culture. She writes and curates
exhibitions on a wide range of issues involving photographic practice and
reception, including commercial images of the 1920s, Canadian governmental
uses of photography, and contemporary photo-based art practice. She is
currently working on a major study of the National Film Board of Canada's
Still Photography Division, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada.
Sheila Petty is dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and professor of media
studies at the University of Regina (Canada). She is also an adjunct
scientist (New Media) at TRLabs, Regina. She has written extensively on
issues of cultural representation, identity, and nation in African and
African diasporic cinema, television, and new technologies. She has curated
film and television series and exhibitions for galleries across Canada.
Jeanne Randolph is a cultural theorist whose lectures, performances, and
writings put a psychoanalytic torque on hi tech, advertising, mass media,
and popculture phenomena. In Psychoanalysis & Synchronized Swimming,
Symbolization and Its Discontents, and her forthcoming Why Stoics Box,
Jeanne's collected writings embellish the value that contemporary visual
arts contribute to contemporary society.
Beverly Rasporich is a professor in the interdisciplinary Faculty of
Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. She teaches in the
Canadian Studies program and is the author of Dance of the Sexes: Art and
Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro, and co-editor of A Passion For
Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies and Woman as Artist. She has
written numerous articles on Canadian culture on such topics as Canadian
humour, Native literature, multiculturalism, and folk art. She is co-author
of the thematic entry "Canadian Culture and Ethnic Diversity" in the
Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples. She has recently completed a compact disc
on the visual arts, Western Place/Women's Space.
Eric Sherbert holds a ba and llb from Queen's University and is currently
working as legal counsel at the Department of Justice, Canada, in Toronto.
He is currently completing his LLM at Queen's University with a thesis
entitled "Towards an Aboriginal Charter of Rights."
Garry Sherbert is an associate professor in the Department of English at
the University of Regina in Regina, Canada. He is the author of Menippean
Satire and the Poetics of Wit. He is currently co-editing two volumes of
The Collected Works of Northrop Frye: Shakespeare and the Renaissance, as
well as coauthoring a book entitled In the Name of Friendship, on Jacques
Derrida and poet-philosopher Michel Deguy.
Cynthia Sugars is an assistant professor in the Department of English at
the University of Ottawa. She is the author of numerous articles and
reviews on Canadian literature and postcolonial theory, including a
forthcoming contribution to ARIEL entitled "Can the Canadian Speak? Lost in
Postcolonial Space." She is currently editing a collection of essays
entitled Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism.
Jayne Wark is an associate professor of art history at the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design in Halifax. Her publications on contemporary
visual art focus on conceptual art, video, and performance art. She is
currently working on a book on feminist performance in North America.
Emily West received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at
the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently an assistant professor in
the Communication Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Her co-authored article on British nationalism as mediated by newspapers
appeared in a 2004 issue of European Journal of Communication. In addition
to her ongoing research interest in media and nationalism, she is working
on major projects about two feminized and commonly denigrated forms of
popular culture: greeting cards and cheerleading. Her dissertation project
on expressing the self through greeting card communication was awarded a
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral
Fellowship. She teaches and writes in the areas of consumer culture, media
audiences, infotainment, and freedom of expression.