Ephemeral Territories : Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada.

By: Manning, ErinMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816693542Subject(s): Discourse analysis -- Canada | Home -- Social aspects -- Canada | Human territoriality -- Canada | National characteristics, Canadian | Nationalism -- Canada | Political culture -- Canada | Regionalism -- CanadaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ephemeral Territories : Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in CanadaDDC classification: 305.8/00971 LOC classification: F1021.2 -- .M36 2003ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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