Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781926836492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 276 str.

Manijeh Mannani; Veronica Thompson

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Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood asfragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifacetedand contested space only tenuously linked to traditionalconcepts of the nation. As Canadians, we are endlesslydefining ourselves, seeking to locate our sense of self inrelation to some Other. By examining how writers andperformers have conceptualized and negotiated issuesof personal identity in their work, the essays collected inSelves and Subjectivities investigate emerging representations of self and other in contemporary Canadian arts and culture. Included are essays on iconic poet and musician Leonard Cohen, Governor General award?winning playwright Colleen Wagner, feminist poet and novelist Daphne Marlatt, film director David Cronenberg, poet and writer H?di Bouraoui, author and media scholar Marusya Bociurkiw, puppeteer Ronnie Burkett, and the Aboriginal rap group War Party.As critic Diana Brydon has argued, contemporary Canadian writers are ?not transcending nation but resituating it.? Drawing together themes of gender and sexuality, trauma and displacement, performativity, and linguistic diversity, Selves and Subjectivities offers an exciting newcontribution to the multivocal dialogue surrounding theCanadian sense of identity.