Canadian Cultural Studies

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.

• Foreword / Fredric Jameson xiEditors' Note xvAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction. Between Empires: On Cultural Studies in Canada / Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman, and Gail Faurschou 11. Canadian Cultural Theory: Origins A Plea for Time / Harold Innis 37The Military Implications of the American Constitution / Harold Innis 54Canada as Counter Environment / Marshall McLuhan 71The Medium Is the Message / Marshall McLuhan 87Refus Global / Paul-Émile Borduas 100Conclusion to the Literary History of Canada / Northrop Frye 111City of the End of Things / Northrop Frye 129Canadian Fate and Imperialism / George Grant 145In Defence of North America / George Grant 160Of a Hesitant Quebec / Fernand Dumont 173The Buckskin Curtain: The Indian-Problem Problem / Harold Cardinal 200The Old Question, but Not the Old Answers / Anthony Wilden 2102. Contemporary Canadian Cultural Studies A. Nationalism and Canada 229The Social Identity of English Canada / Ian Angus 231"Remembering (from) Where You're Going": Memory as Legacy and Inheritance / Jocelyn LÉtourneau 248The True North Song Free / Rob Shields 276Late Nationalism: The Case of Quebec / Kevin Pask 289Technological Nationalism / Maurice Charland 308B. Race, Difference, and Multiculturalism 325On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and the State of "Canada" / Himani Bannerji 327In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell 344Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in a Multicultural Nation: Contests over Truth in the Into the Heart of Africa Controversy / Eva Mackey 366Another Side of Me / Lee Maracle 383Tewatatha'wi: Aboriginal Nationalism in Taiaiake Alfred's Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifest / Kristina Fagan 390Always Indigenize! The Radical Humanities in the Postcolonial Canadian University / Len Findlay 405C. Modernity and Contemporary Culture 423Hauled Kicking and Screaming into Modernity: Non-Synchronicity and Globalization in Post-War Newfoundland / Stephen Crocker 425Theorizing Toronto / Ioan Davies 441Shifting Boundaries, Lines of Descent: Cultural Studies and Institutional Realignments / Will Straw 457Writing on the Border / Jody Berland 472Communities, Civic Boosterism, and Fans / Rick Gruneau and David Whitson 488Global Vistas and Local Reflection: Negotiating Place and Identity in Vancouver Television / Serra Tinic 5013. Government Documents Preface to Government Documents 515From the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in Arts, Letters and Sciences (Massey Commission) / Government of Canada 518From the Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (Bi and Bi Commission) / Government of Canada 533From Multiculturalism and the Government of Canada (Canadian Government Pamphlet) / Government of Canada 548Afterword. Are Cultural Studies an Anglo-Saxon Paradigm? Reflections on Cultural Studies in Francophone Networks / Yves Laberge 561Contributors 581Index 585

“Canadian Cultural Studies marks an important publication. . . . With contributions from media studies, literary studies, cultural studies, Aboriginal studies, and studies of multiculturalism, as well as government policy documents and a concerted effort to bridge the divide between Quebec and the rest of Canada, this reader does a great job of covering its ground. . . . [T]hese are essential essays and documents. It is, moreover, an accessible and useful text that I heartily recommend to instructors of Canadian studies looking to foster a sense of academic rigour in their courses.” - Kit Dobson, Canadian Literature “This reader is a timely and provocative reflection on Canadian cultural studies. While some readers may be familiar with many of the essays, encountering them again will prove to be rewarding for the new insights that their juxtapositions in this volume offer. This volume attests to not only to the substantial history of cultural theory in Canada, but also to its vibrancy.”- Lily Cho, Ariel “The editors deserve credit for bringing together scattered and not easily accessible seminal articles focusing on Canadian economy and polity. This anthology, comprising historical, contemporary, multidisciplinary, theoretical, and critical essays, will remain an essential sourcebook on Canadian cultural studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - D. A. Chekki, Choice “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 “Canadian Cultural Studies marks an important publication. . . . With contributions from media studies, literary studies, cultural studies, Aboriginal studies, and studies of multiculturalism, as well as government policy documents and a concerted effort to bridge the divide between Quebec and the rest of Canada, this reader does a great job of covering its ground. . . . [T]hese are essential essays and documents. It is, moreover, an accessible and useful text that I heartily recommend to instructors of Canadian studies looking to foster a sense of academic rigour in their courses.” - Kit Dobson (Canadian Literature) “The editors deserve credit for bringing together scattered and not easily accessible seminal articles focusing on Canadian economy and polity. This anthology, comprising historical, contemporary, multidisciplinary, theoretical, and critical essays, will remain an essential sourcebook on Canadian cultural studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - D. A. Chekki (Choice) “This reader is a timely and provocative reflection on Canadian cultural studies. While some readers may be familiar with many of the essays, encountering them again will prove to be rewarding for the new insights that their juxtapositions in this volume offer. This volume attests to not only to the substantial history of cultural theory in Canada, but also to its vibrancy.”- Lily Cho (ariel)