Critical inquiries : a reader in studies of Canada

Caldwell, Lynn, 1968- (Added Author). Leroux, Darryl, 1978- (Added Author). Leung, Carrianne K. Y. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781552665510 (pbk)
ISBN: 1552665518
Physical Description: print
x, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Pub., c2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-226) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. The bilingual limits of Canadian multiculturalism: the politics of language and race / Eve Haque -- 2. Arts funding, the state and Canadian nation-making producing governable subjects: The Canadian government and its responsibility for culture ; The birth and funding of the Canadian Council of the arts / Andrea Fatona -- 3. The many paradoxes of race in Quebec: civilization, laïcité and gender equality / Darryl Leroux -- 4. Creating space for difference: theorizing multicultural Jewish identity in Canada / Michele Byers and Stephanie Tara Schwartz -- 5. Chinese Canada in Moose Jaw / Carrianne Leung -- 6. Unsettling the middle ground: could the world use a more questionable Saskatchewan? / Lynn Caldwell -- 7. Home at the bridge: indigenous belonging and the settler border / Robinder Kaur Sehdev -- 8. In the shoes of the other: indigenous authenticities and colonial logics of difference / Damien Lee -- 9. Homonormativity and the loss of queer: re-contextualizing Canada's sexual politics / Oren Howlett -- 10. Monumental performances: the famous five, gendered whiteness and the making of Canada's colonial present / Mary-Jo Nadeau.