Canadian cultural poesis : essays on Canadian culture / / Garry Sherbert, Annie Gerin, and Sheila Petty, editors

• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (541 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.0971
• Soggetto topico: Mass media and culture - Canada; Arts and society - Canada; Minorities - Canada
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Civilization
• Altri autori: PettySheila SherbertGarry <1957-> GerinAnnie <1969->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Poetics of Canadian Culture; I: Media and Its (Dis) Contents; II: Performing and Disrupting Identities; III: (Dis) Locating Language; IV: Cultural Dissidence; Bibliography; Biographical Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How do we make culture and how does culture make us? Canadian Cultural Poesis takes a comprehensive approach toward Canadian culture from a variety of provocative perspectives. Centred on the notion of culture as social identity, it offers original essays on cultural issues of urgent concern to Canadians: gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism. From a broad range of disciplines, contributors consider these issues in the contexts of media, individual and national identity, language, and cultural dissent. Providing an excellent introduction to current debates
• Titolo autorizzato: Canadian cultural poesis
• ISBN: 1-280-37752-6; 9786610377527; 0-88920-910-3; 1-4237-6108-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816304003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)