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.
| ISBN: | 9780889204867 |
| Publication date: | 28th February 2006 |
| Author: | Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin, Sheila Petty |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 540 pages |
| Series: | Cultural Studies |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Ethnic studies Social and cultural anthropology |
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.
Canadian Cultural Poesis features in the following genres: Popular culture, Ethnic studies, Social and cultural anthropology
Canadian Cultural Poesis is available in Paperback
Canadian Cultural Poesis was written by Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin, Sheila Petty and published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Canadian Cultural Poesis has 540 pages
Yes it is part of Cultural Studies series
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