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Record Nr.

UNISA996210083003316

Autore

Nonnekes Paul <1961->

Titolo

Northern love : an exploration of Canadian masculinity / / Paul Nonnekes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athabasca University Press, 2008

Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-282-81957-7

9786612819575

1-897425-23-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 pages)

Collana

Cultural dialectics

Disciplina

305.310971

Soggetti

Masculinity - Canada

Masculinity - Social aspects - Canada

Love - Psychological aspects

Masculinity in literature

Love in literature

Indians in literature

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. [131]-133) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Section One: STRANGE LOVE --1. Naming and Seeing --2. Master and Slave --3. The Imaginary --4. Strange Gender --5. Love and Trauma --Section Two: INTERSUBJECTIVE LOVE --1. Recognition --2. Intersubjectivity --3. The Contract--

Sommario/riassunto

In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in pursuit of a distinctive conception of a Canadian masculinity. In close discussions of novels by Rudy Wiebe ( A Discovery of Strangers ) and Robert Kroetsch ( The Man from the Creeks ), Nonnekes ranges from Hegel to Lacan, and Butler and Kristeva to Žižek, eliciting an evolving conception of love characteristic of the Canadian cultural imaginary.