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
Show moreCanada 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
Show moreForeword / Fredric Jameson xi
Editors' Note xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. Between Empires: On Cultural Studies in Canada /
Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman, and Gail Faurschou 1
1. Canadian Cultural Theory: Origins
A Plea for Time / Harold Innis 37
The Military Implications of the American Constitution / Harold
Innis 54
Canada as Counter Environment / Marshall McLuhan 71
The Medium Is the Message / Marshall McLuhan 87
Refus Global / Paul-Émile Borduas 100
Conclusion to the Literary History of Canada / Northrop Frye
111
City of the End of Things / Northrop Frye 129
Canadian Fate and Imperialism / George Grant 145
In Defence of North America / George Grant 160
Of a Hesitant Quebec / Fernand Dumont 173
The Buckskin Curtain: The Indian-Problem Problem / Harold Cardinal
200
The Old Question, but Not the Old Answers / Anthony Wilden 210
2. Contemporary Canadian Cultural Studies
A. Nationalism and Canada 229
The Social Identity of English Canada / Ian Angus 231
"Remembering (from) Where You're Going": Memory as Legacy and
Inheritance / Jocelyn Létourneau 248
The True North Song Free / Rob Shields 276
Late Nationalism: The Case of Quebec / Kevin Pask 289
Technological Nationalism / Maurice Charland 308
B. Race, Difference, and Multiculturalism 325
On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and
the State of "Canada" / Himani Bannerji 327
In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of
Multiculturalism in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell 344
Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in a Multicultural Nation:
Contests over Truth in the Into the Heart of Africa Controversy /
Eva Mackey 366
Another Side of Me / Lee Maracle 383
Tewatatha'wi: Aboriginal Nationalism in Taiaiake Alfred's Peace,
Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifest / Kristina Fagan
390
Always Indigenize! The Radical Humanities in the Postcolonial
Canadian University / Len Findlay 405
C. Modernity and Contemporary Culture 423
Hauled Kicking and Screaming into Modernity: Non-Synchronicity and
Globalization in Post-War Newfoundland / Stephen Crocker 425
Theorizing Toronto / Ioan Davies 441
Shifting Boundaries, Lines of Descent: Cultural Studies and
Institutional Realignments / Will Straw 457
Writing on the Border / Jody Berland 472
Communities, Civic Boosterism, and Fans / Rick Gruneau and David
Whitson 488
Global Vistas and Local Reflection: Negotiating Place and Identity
in Vancouver Television / Serra Tinic 501
3. Government Documents
Preface to Government Documents 515
From the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in
Arts, Letters and Sciences (Massey Commission) / Government of
Canada 518
From the Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and
Biculturalism (Bi and Bi Commission) / Government of Canada 533
From Multiculturalism and the Government of Canada (Canadian
Government Pamphlet) / Government of Canada 548
Afterword. Are Cultural Studies an Anglo-Saxon Paradigm?
Reflections on Cultural Studies in Francophone Networks / Yves
Laberge 561
Contributors 581
Index 585
An anthology that brings work by contemporary Canadian cultural analysts together with that of an earlier generation, including Harold Cardinal, Northrup Frye, Harold Innis, and Marshall McLuhan
Sourayan Mookerjea is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta and the author of Crisis and Catachresis: Pedagogy at the Limits of Identity Politics.
Imre Szeman is Senator McMaster Chair of Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, and the author of Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation.
Gail Faurschou is a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.
"Canadian Cultural Studies is a brilliant study and appropriation of some of the most important issues that have been central to the history of cultural studies. But there is more at work in this book than appropriation; Canadian Cultural Studies rewrites that legacy and establishes Canada as a society in which cultural studies as a theoretical discourse and practice is being played out in ways that make this book indispensable to understanding what cultural studies has become and where it might be going in the future. This is an extraordinary book for anyone interested in cultural studies and the importance of Canada in rewriting and applying some of its most fundamental assumptions."--Henry A. Giroux, author of Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? "For those familiar with cultural studies in Canada, this reader offers a necessary and illuminating consolidation of key texts. For newer eyes, there is fresh inspiration. Expertly selected and organized, the material assembled here is a gilded invitation to explore this rich field of interdisciplinary and politically engaged cultural analysis. Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader is a vital contribution to contemporary currents in the study of globalization, nationhood, and identity."--Charles R. Acland, author of Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture
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