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In Hip and Trivial, historian Robert Wright challenges the pervasive stereotype of young Canadians as addicts of televisual media who are fundamentally alienated from print culture.Variously identified as "slackers," "whiners" and, of course, "Gen Xers" - a term that now signifies a dizzying array of intellectual, emotional and social defects - Canadians who came of age in the late 1980s and the 1990s live in a socio-cultural space circumscribed by two stereotypes.On the one hand, they are believed to be violent, apathetic, depoliticized, suicidal, deviant, criminal - in a word, alien.On the other, they are commonly thought to be the products of the hyper-commercialization of youth culture in the age of "cool hunting," Tommy Hilfiger and designer consumerism.Arguing that the stigmatization of youth as illiterate and culturally benighted is an element in a more generalized assault upon youth culture under neo-conservatism, Wright assesses what it means to be young, powerless and downwardly mobile in contemporary Canada, and to occupy such condescending cultural spaces.Examining the rise of "Canadian Lit" and "Kid Lit" since the 1970s, and the more recent emergence of a powerful consensus among Canadians that reading ought to be an essential component of family life, Hip and Trivial demonstrates that young people in Canada have been extremely well served by the nation's "culture of literacy" as it has taken shape over the last thirty years.Youth today do not read less, or less voraciously, than their elders, Wright argues, but the historic linkages between youth, reading and citizenship - so characteristic of the literary nationalism of the baby boomers - no longer obtains.However much they may mystify the keepers of the canon, for young Canadians living in a postmodern, globalized world of seemingly infinite cultural choice, reading has largely ceased to be a patriotic act. ... Read more

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Rethinking notions of empire and outpost and claims of universal genius in the teaching of literature, this book discusses themes such as literature as cultural imperialism, racism and eurocentrism in the literary reinforcement of domination, and the Canadian state and the normalizing of imperialism. ... Read more

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French-Canadian novels began as a marginal offshoot of French metropolitan writing and are now read and studied not only in English Canada but around the world.This collection of essays offers a history and analysis of French-Canadian fiction from the 1830s to the present day.Besides discussing a variety of works and writers, most available in English translation, the book explores the rapid development of new women's writing in the last twenty years, treats the art of translation, and presents a bibliography of criticism and anthologies. ... Read more

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This volume brings together essays that address the problematic Louis Riel, Canadian hero/villain, at the intersection of history and myth. The emphasis is upon the shifting and ultimately indeterminable nature of representations of Riel, in newspaper, textbook, novel, poem and play. ... Read more

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The Siglit, or Mackenzie Inuit, the ancestors of the modern Inuvialuit, were, at the time of Euroamerican contact, the most populous and complex Inuit society in the Canadian Arctic. Through innovative analysis of animal bones recovered from their ancient archaeological sites, this comprehensive study documents the complex relationships between the Mackenzie Inuit and their food animals, and tracks these connections over some 800 years, from their earliest occupations to the arrival of Europeans in the 19th century.

Methodological in focus, this study examines the way in which archaeologists integrate animal remains into their analyses and proposes a systematic methodology for evaluating faunal data against other archaeological information. This volume chronicles the relationship between developing Siglit economic strategies and shifts in technology, settlement strategies, demography, and climate, exposing in the process the primary link between Siglit culture and their subsistence practices. ... Read more

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Canada’s culture is distinguished by the Virgin Mary’s astonishingly frequent presence – her roots in Canadian soil are deep. In the book, rich references delve into literature, history, art, and geography. In locating Mary in this country, Skogan observes the ways she transforms to answer Canadian needs. From Virgin Mary sightings on frosted windows to thrift shop icons, from the Our Lady Peace rock band to traditional prayer, Mary lives in Canada.

Dense, poetic, and lovingly hewn, Skogan’s work, based on years of extensive research, brings the Virgin Mary to Canadian shores. Illustrations, varying from modern art to pop-culture presentations, offer visual context. ... Read more

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Mary of Canada
Mary of Canada is part art, part spirituality, part history, and part geography book. The author explores associations of the Virgin Mary throughout various aspects of Canadian culture. In undertaking these explorations, the author finds traces of Mary in some very unusual places. One would expect a religious symbol to appear in Catholic churches, cemeteries, and other religiously influenced locations. Statues, paintings, stained glass, and other related works do appear in such locations across Canada. However, the Mary influences I found most intriguing were in secular situations. For instance, the rose as a symbol of Mary or towns, rivers, colleges, and universities named for the Virgin Mary. I also found the use of Mary in advertising quite interesting.

Mary of Canada is beautifully put together with a little something for everyone. The pictures are incredible. I was also impressed by the amount and depth of research that the author put into this text. I had no idea that the Virgin Mary was so entrenched in Canadian history or culture. Many of the things the author mentions, I would not have even thought of as Mary influences until I read this book.

Exploring images and evocations of the Virgin
Engagingly illustrated with compelling black-and-white photographs, Mary Of Canada: The Virgin Mary In Canadian Culture, Spirituality, History, And Geography by journalist and author Joan Skogan is a thoughtful and original study of the Virgin Mary's perception, incorporation, and frequent presence in Canadian culture. Exploring images and evocations of the Virgin in Canadian literature, history, art, and geography, Skogan deftly takes the reader on an imaginative and engaging tour through Canadian history, the human heart, and Christian spirituality. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Manager, published by Canadian Institute of Management on June 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1858 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Successful Organizational Change.(guidelines on transition and corporate culture)
Author: Denis St-Amour
Publication: Canadian Manager (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2001
Publisher: Canadian Institute of Management
Volume: 26Issue: 2Page: 20

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This book covers English-language children's literature from 1975 to 1985, and includes significant titles in the major genres of picture-book, fiction, the oral tradition, poetry, and plays. ... Read more

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"Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture" is the first book to gather together essays by Barbara Godard, one of the leading and most prolific figures in the field of Canadian studies. Godard has long been one of the most influential readers of Canadian literature. Much of the force of her work comes from her meticulous and relentless attention to the networks that produce both the texts and events we study and the methods through which we read them. Whether she writes about feminist theory, orality and Native women writers, or the exigencies of the cultural field, she has been instrumental in interrogating, time and time again, the normative ways in which we think about Canadian culture.From the function of literature to the materiality of institutions and periodicals, from the theory and practice of translation to the interrelations between English and French Canadian literatures, her critical interventions have drastically reconceptualised our inherited understandings of Canadian culture. ... Read more