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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452188003321

Autore

Manning Erin

Titolo

Ephemeral territories [[electronic resource] ] : representing nation, home, and identity in Canada / / Erin Manning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9354-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/00971

Soggetti

National characteristics, Canadian

Nationalism - Canada

Political culture - Canada

Discourse analysis - Canada

Human territoriality - Canada

Home - Social aspects - Canada

Regionalism - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Politics and government 1980-

Canada Intellectual life

Canada Ethnic relations

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 (p. 169-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: Unmoored; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Close to Home: Canadian Identity, Nationalism, and Errant Politics; 1. An Excess of Seeing: Territorial Imperatives in Canadian Landscape Art; 2. Beyond Accommodation: National Space and Recalcitrant Bodies; 3. Where the Zulu Meets the Mohawk; 4. Face-to-Face with the Incommensurable: Srinivas Krishna's Lulu; 5. Dwelling within the Language of the Other; Conclusion: Water from the Rock; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ephemeral Territories weaves together narratives and representations of Canadian identity-from political philosophy and cultural theory to art and films-to develop and complicate familiar views of identity and selfhood. In a critical engagement with notions of territory, identity, racial difference, separatism, multiculturalism, and homelessness,



Manning delves into the question of what it means to be at home in Canada.