Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sourayan Mookerjea is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta and the author of Crisis and Catachresis: Pedagogy at the Limits of Identity Politics.

Imre Szeman is Senator McMaster Chair of Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, and the author of Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism and the Nation.

Gail Faurschou is a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

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"For those familiar with cultural studies in Canada, this reader offers a necessary and illuminating consolidation of key texts. For newer eyes, there is fresh inspiration. Expertly selected and organized, the material assembled here is a gilded invitation to explore this rich field of interdisciplinary and politically engaged cultural analysis. "Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader" is a vital contribution to contemporary currents in the study of globalization, nationhood, and identity."--Charles R. Acland, author of "Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture"

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Canadian Cultural Studies

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Contents

FREDRIC JAMESON Foreword......................................................................................................................................xiEditors' Note..................................................................................................................................................xvAcknowledgments................................................................................................................................................xviiSOURAYAN MOOKERJEA, IMRE SZEMAN, AND GAIL FAURSCHOU Introduction Between Empires: On Cultural Studies in Canada..............................................1HAROLD INNIS A Plea for Time..................................................................................................................................37HAROLD INNIS The Military Implications of the American Constitution...........................................................................................54MARSHALL MCLUHAN Canada as Counter-Environment................................................................................................................71MARSHALL MCLUHAN The Medium Is the Message....................................................................................................................87PAUL-MILE BORDUAS Refus Global...............................................................................................................................100NORTHROP FRYE Conclusion to the Literary History of Canada....................................................................................................111NORTHROP FRYE City of the End of Things.......................................................................................................................129GEORGE GRANT Canadian Fate and Imperialism....................................................................................................................145GEORGE GRANT In Defence of North America......................................................................................................................160FERNAND DUMONT Of a Hesitant Quebec...........................................................................................................................173HAROLD CARDINAL The Buckskin Curtain: The Indian-Problem Problem..............................................................................................200ANTHONY WILDEN The Old Question, but Not the Old Answers......................................................................................................210A. NATIONALISM AND CANADA......................................................................................................................................229IAN ANGUS The Social Identity of English Canada...............................................................................................................231JOCELYN LTOURNEAU "Remembering (from) Where You're Going": Memory as Legacy and Inheritance..................................................................248ROB SHIELDS The True North Strong and Free....................................................................................................................276KEVIN PASK Late Nationalism: The Case of Quebec...............................................................................................................289MAURICE CHARLAND Technological Nationalism....................................................................................................................308B. RACE, DIFFERENCE, AND MULTICULTURALISM......................................................................................................................325HIMANI BANNERJI On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and the State of "Canada"........................................................327KATHARYNE MITCHELL In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada..................................................344EVA MACKEY Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in a Multicultural Nation: Contests over Truth in the Into the Heart of Africa Controversy.....................366LEE MARACLE Another Side of Me................................................................................................................................383KRISTINA FAGAN Tewatatha:wi: Aboriginal Nationalism in Taiaiake Alfred's Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto.................................390LEN FINDLAY Always Indigenize! The Radical Humanities in the Postcolonial Canadian University.................................................................405C. MODERNITY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE..........................................................................................................................423STEPHEN CROCKER Hauled Kicking and Screaming into Modernity: Non-Synchronicity and Globalization in Post-War Newfoundland.....................................425IOAN DAVIES Theorizing Toronto................................................................................................................................441WILL STRAW Shifting Boundaries, Lines of Descent: Cultural Studies and Institutional Realignments.............................................................457JODY BERLAND Writing on the Border............................................................................................................................472RICK GRUNEAU AND DAVID WHITSON Communities, Civic Boosterism, and Fans........................................................................................488SERRA TINIC Global Vistas and Local Reflections: Negotiating Place and Identity in Vancouver Television.......................................................5013. Government Documents Preface to Government Documents.......................................................................................................515GOVERNMENT OF CANADA From the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in Arts, Letters and Sciences (Massey Commission)........................518GOVERNMENT OF CANADA From the Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (Bi and Bi Commission).........................................533GOVERNMENT OF CANADA From Multiculturalism and the Government of Canada (Canadian Government Pamphlet)........................................................548YVES LABERGE Afterword Are Cultural Studies an Anglo-Saxon Paradigm? Reflections on Cultural Studies in Francophone Networks.................................561Contributors...................................................................................................................................................581Index of Names.................................................................................................................................................585

Chapter One

HAROLD INNIS A Plea for Time

Harold Innis was born in 1894 in the farming community of Otterville in southwestern Ontario. He attended McMaster University, then located in Toronto, and took preparatory courses for law, among which he found history and political economy particularly interesting. He graduated during World War I, served in the Signal Corps, and was wounded. Upon returning to Canada and...