Unbecoming nationalism : from commemoration to redress in Canada

Summary: "Canada's recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives. Using "unbecoming" as a theoretical framework to unsettle or decolonize nationalist narratives, Helene Vosters examines an eclectic range of both state-sponsored social memory projects and counter-memorial projects to reveal and unravel the threads connecting reverential military commemoration, celebratory cultural nationalism, and white settler-colonial nationalism. Vosters brings readings of institutional, aesthetic, and activist performances of Canadian military commemoration, settler-colonial nationalism, and redress into conversation with literature that examines the relationship between memory, violence, and nationalism from the disciplinary arenas of performance studies, Canadian studies, critical race and Indigenous studies, memory studies, and queer and gender studies. In addition to using performance as a theoretical framework, Vosters uses performance to enact a philosophy of praxis and embodied theory."--

Record details

ISBN: 0887558410
ISBN: 9780887558412
ISBN: 9780887555855
ISBN: 0887555837
ISBN: 9780887555831
ISBN: 0887555853
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Lest We Forget: The Contested Terrain of Canadian Social Memory -- Beyond the Highway of Heroes: From Reverential Silence toward a Peripheral Poetics of Lament -- The Canadian War Museum: Imagining the Canadian Nation through Military Commemoration -- Unbecoming Canadian Militarism's Forgetful Narratives: Unravelling the Uniform's Ambiguous Meanings -- The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Collisional Encounters of Unbecoming Canadian Nationalisms -- Unbecoming Canada 150: By Many Means Necessary.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.