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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154969203321

Autore

Czernis Loretta <1952->

Titolo

Weaving a Canadian allegory : anonymous writing, personal reading / / by Loretta Czernis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1994

ISBN

0-88920-846-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

971.4/04

Soggetti

Federal government - Canada - Historiography

Nationalism - Canada - Historiography

Governmental investigations - Canada - Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Concerning Contexture; 2 Reading and Projection; 3 Confederation and the Body of Conflict; 4 Writing a Body of Unity: Rewriting ""Canada and the Search for Unity""; 5 Mytho-history to Allegory: Tomorrow's Unity as Patriot's Progress; 6 Misreading Nietzsche, Rewriting Bloom; Afterword; Appendix: Outlining The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Loretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada. The Report itself is the product of what she calls the ""federal writing machine"" which exists to continually rewrite and thus reinvent Canada. Czernis' contextual reading of the Report occurs on two levels: reading technically, she examines the Report's anonymous writing style that asks