Weaving a Canadian Allegory : Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading.

Weaving a Canadian Allegory : Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Czernis, Loretta, 1952-
Imprint:	Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (153 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Task Force on Canadian Unity. Task Force on Canadian Unity. Federal government -- Canada -- Historiography. Governmental investigations -- Canada -- Historiography. Nationalism -- Canada -- Historiography. History. History. Nationalism -- Historiography. Canada. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11382354

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ISBN:	9780889208469 0889208468
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	Loretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada. The Report itself is the product of what she calls the "federal writing machine" which exists to continually rewrite and thus reinvent Canada. Czernis' contextual reading of the Report occurs on two levels: reading technically, she examines the Report's anonymous writing style that asks readers to imitate its own conclu.
Other form:	Print version: Czernis, Loretta. Weaving a Canadian Allegory : Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2009 9780889202320

Table of Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Concerning Contexture; 2 Reading and Projection; 3 Confederation and the Body of Conflict; 4 Writing a Body of Unity: Rewriting "Canada and the Search for Unity"; 5 Mytho-history to Allegory: Tomorrow's Unity as Patriot's Progress; 6 Misreading Nietzsche, Rewriting Bloom; Afterword; Appendix: Outlining The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.