Table of Contents

Foreword / Fredric Jameson xi
Editors' Note xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. Between Empires: On Cultural Studies in Canada / Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman, and Gail Faurschou 1
1. Canadian Cultural Theory: Origins
A Plea for Time / Harold Innis 37
The Military Implications of the American Constitution / Harold Innis 54
Canada as Counter Environment / Marshall McLuhan 71
The Medium Is the Message / Marshall McLuhan 87
Refus Global / Paul-Émile Borduas 100
Conclusion to the Literary History of Canada / Northrop Frye 111
City of the End of Things / Northrop Frye 129
Canadian Fate and Imperialism / George Grant 145
In Defence of North America / George Grant 160
Of a Hesitant Quebec / Fernand Dumont 173
The Buckskin Curtain: The Indian-Problem Problem / Harold Cardinal 200
The Old Question, but Not the Old Answers / Anthony Wilden 210
2. Contemporary Canadian Cultural Studies
A. Nationalism and Canada 229
The Social Identity of English Canada / Ian Angus 231
"Remembering (from) Where You're Going": Memory as Legacy and Inheritance / Jocelyn Létourneau 248
The True North Song Free / Rob Shields 276
Late Nationalism: The Case of Quebec / Kevin Pask 289
Technological Nationalism / Maurice Charland 308
B. Race, Difference, and Multiculturalism 325
On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and the State of "Canada" / Himani Bannerji 327
In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell 344
Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in a Multicultural Nation: Contests over Truth in the Into the Heart of Africa Controversy / Eva Mackey 366
Another Side of Me / Lee Maracle 383
Tewatatha'wi: Aboriginal Nationalism in Taiaiake Alfred's Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifest / Kristina Fagan 390
Always Indigenize! The Radical Humanities in the Postcolonial Canadian University / Len Findlay 405
C. Modernity and Contemporary Culture 423
Hauled Kicking and Screaming into Modernity: Non-Synchronicity and Globalization in Post-War Newfoundland / Stephen Crocker 425
Theorizing Toronto / Ioan Davies 441
Shifting Boundaries, Lines of Descent: Cultural Studies and Institutional Realignments / Will Straw 457
Writing on the Border / Jody Berland 472
Communities, Civic Boosterism, and Fans / Rick Gruneau and David Whitson 488
Global Vistas and Local Reflection: Negotiating Place and Identity in Vancouver Television / Serra Tinic 501
3. Government Documents
Preface to Government Documents 515
From the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in Arts, Letters and Sciences (Massey Commission) / Government of Canada 518
From the Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (Bi and Bi Commission) / Government of Canada 533
From Multiculturalism and the Government of Canada (Canadian Government Pamphlet) / Government of Canada 548
Afterword. Are Cultural Studies an Anglo-Saxon Paradigm? Reflections on Cultural Studies in Francophone Networks / Yves Laberge 561
Contributors 581
Index 585

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An anthology that brings work by contemporary Canadian cultural analysts together with that of an earlier generation, including Harold Cardinal, Northrup Frye, Harold Innis, and Marshall McLuhan

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Canadian Cultural Studies is a brilliant study and appropriation of some of the most important issues that have been central to the history of cultural studies. But there is more at work in this book than appropriation; Canadian Cultural Studies rewrites that legacy and establishes Canada as a society in which cultural studies as a theoretical discourse and practice is being played out in ways that make this book indispensable to understanding what cultural studies has become and where it might be going in the future. This is an extraordinary book for anyone interested in cultural studies and the importance of Canada in rewriting and applying some of its most fundamental assumptions."--Henry A. Giroux, author of Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? "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