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Selves and Subjectivities

Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture

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.

276 pages | © 2011


Table of Contents

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

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