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Selves and Subjectivities
Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 / Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson
A Semiotic Reading of Hédi Bouraoui’s The Woman Between the Lines 13 / Elizabeth Dahab
Mourning Lost “Others” in Ronnie Burkett’s Happy 39 / Janne Cleveland
Putting an End to Recycled Violence in Colleen Wagner’s The Monument 69 / Gilbert McInnis
Representations of the Self and the Other in Canadian Intercultural Theatre 95 / Anne Nothof
Pulling Her Self Together: Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic 115 / Veronica Thompson
“New, Angular Possibilities”: Redefining Ethnicity Through Transcultural Exchanges in Marusya Bociurkiw’s The Children of Mary 151 / Dana Patrascu-Kingsley
The Elegiac Loss of the English- Canadian Self and the End of the Romantic Identification with the Aboriginal Other in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers 175 / Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber
Playing the Role of the Tribe: The Aesthetics of Appropriation in Canadian Aboriginal Hip Hop 207 / Thor Polukoshko
Toward a Theory of the Dubject: Doubling and Spacing the Self in Canadian Media Culture 235 / Mark A. McCutcheon
List of Contributors 265