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 in Canadian
culture, Canadian Cultural Poesis will appeal not only to readers
looking for an overview of Canadian culture but also to those interested
in cultural studies and interdisciplinarity, as well as scholars in
film, art, literature, sociology, communication, and womens studies.
This book offers new insights into how we make and are made by Canadian
culture, each essay contributing to this poetics, inventing new ways to
welcome cultural differences of all kinds fo the Canadian cultural
community.