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Title:Canadian Cultural Poesis : Essays on Canadian Culture
Series:(Cultural Studies, Volume 4)
Author:Gary Sherbert, Annie Gerin & Sheila Petty (eds)
ISBN:0889204861 : 9780889204867
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:524
Weight: .726 Kg.
Published:Wilfrid Laurier University Press - February 2006
List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Cultural studies: Canada


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, this book 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 women’s 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 of the Canadian cultural community.

Introduction; Part I: Media and its Dis(Contents); Part II: Performing and Disrupting Identities; Part III: (Dis)Locating Language; Part IV: Cultural Dissidence.