Recently added articles from Journal of Canadian Studies:
As Canadian as Possible ... Under What Circumstances? Public Opinion on National Identity in Canada Outside Quebec
Oct 01, 2009; ... Public opinion on national identity in Canada is changing. Using data from the International Social Science Programme, this essay presents evidence that most Canadians have a strong national identity rooted in universal conceptions that everyone can share, such as citizenship. Data also show, ...
Fragments and Absences: Language and Loss in Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness
Oct 01, 2009; ... Miriam Toews resists the conventional narrative of the adolescent leaving the small town, proposing instead that the community deserts Nomi Nickel. Nomi, facing maternal absence and the loss of her mother tongue, attempts to use linguistic and material fragments to connect word and world ....
News and Nationality in Canada, 1890-1930
Oct 01, 2009; ... Adopting the approach that nationality is primarily a cultural phenomenon, this essay analyzes patterns of national news coverage in Canadian newspapers between 1890 and 1930. Based on an examination of 6,800 articles that appeared in 17 newspapers, the essay concludes that national news ...
Jewish Immigrant Encounters with Canada's Native Peoples: Yiddish Writings on Tekahionwake
Oct 01, 2009; ... During the mass Jewish immigration of Eastern-European Jews to Canada in the first decades of the twentieth century, Yiddish publications offered a primary forum for a group of local writers to negotiate with their new identities as Canadian Jews. Within this wider process, Montreal writers H.M ....
The Promise of Encounter: Recent Research in "Native Studies" from University of British Columbia Press
Oct 01, 2009; ... The Promise of Encounter: Recent Research in "Native Studies" from University of British Columbia Press Indigenous Legal Traditions. Ed. Law Commission of Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. 192 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7748-1370-9. $29.95 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7748-1371-6. Let Right ...