03138nam 2200685Ia 450 991015496920332120200520144314.00-88920-846-810.51644/9780889208469(CKB)2430000000002504(EBL)685577(OCoLC)180704462(SSID)ssj0000382873(PQKBManifestationID)11283611(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382873(PQKBWorkID)10395651(PQKB)10366614(MiAaPQ)EBC685577(CaPaEBR)402613(CaBNvSL)rjv00101449 (MiAaPQ)EBC3246223(MdBmJHUP)muse17993(PPN)250538555(DE-B1597)667691(DE-B1597)9780889208469(FR-PaCSA)88899339(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/srh5nt(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402613(EXLCZ)99243000000000250419931221d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWeaving a Canadian allegory anonymous writing, personal reading /by Loretta Czernis1st ed.Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc19941 online resource (153 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55458-230-X 0-88920-232-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 Federal governmentCanadaHistoriographyNationalismCanadaHistoriographyGovernmental investigationsCanadaHistoriographyFederal governmentHistoriography.NationalismHistoriography.Governmental investigationsHistoriography.971.4/04Czernis Loretta1952-1230744MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154969203321Weaving a Canadian Allegory2857489UNINA