Celebrity Cultures in Canada

Katja Lee has recently completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and now teaches at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia. She has published essays on celebrity, public identity performance, and life writing. Her most recent work has been published in Celebrity Studies, Life Writing, and The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. With Lorraine York, she co-edited Celebrity Cultures in Canada.Lorraine York is Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her most recent books are Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity (2013) and Literary Celebrity in Canada (2007). She is currently at work on a project on reluctant celebrity.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Celebrity Cultures in Canada: It's Not a Question Katja Lee and Lorraine York1. Rediscovering Nell Shipman for Canadian Cultural Heritage Amy Shore2. ""What an elastic nationality she possesses!"" Transnational Celebrity Identities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Katja Lee3. Denaturalizing the Myth of Terry Fox and Canadian Disabled Celebrity Valerie J. Millar4. Canadian Political Celebrity: From Trudeau to Trudeau Jennifer Bell5. Celebrity and Indigeneity Lorraine York6. Lament for a Hockey Nation, Don Cherry, and the Apparatus of Canadian Celebrity Julie Rak7. Bon Cop, Bad Cop: A Tale of Two Star Systems Liz Czach8. Crossover Stars: Canadian Viewing Strategies and the Case of Callum Keith Rennie Katherine Ann Roberts9. What's So Funny about Canadian Expats? The Comedian as Celebrity Export Danielle J. Deveau 10. Celebrity Verses Scandal: Prizing Poetry in Canada Owen Percy 11. Bureaucratic Celebrity Ira Wagman

Celebrity Cultures in Canada ... offers insightful, wide-ranging analyses of the workings of "celebrity" or "persona" as a concept. These combined analyses result in a book that will be of interest to scholars of celebrity studies, Canadian literature, film studies, and cultural studies generally. ... Complex patterns of Canadian celebrity are what each of the eleven single-authored chapters teases out by taking up a different Canadian text, genre, author, actor, artist, comedian, politician, or other public figure. -- Nadine Fladd -- Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017)