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Selves and Subjectivities This page intentionally left blank Selves and Subjectivities REFLECTIONS ON CANADIAN ARTS AND CULTURE Edited by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson Copyright © 2012 Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson Published by AU Press, Athabasca University 1200, 10011 – 109 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8 ISBN 978-1-926836-49-2 (print) 978-1-926836-50-8 (PDF) 978-1-926836-51-5 (epub) Cover and interior design by Natalie Olsen, Kisscut Design. Printed and bound in Canada by Marquis Book Printers. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Selves and subjectivities : reflections on Canadian arts and culture / edited by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson. Issued also in electronic format. ISBN 978-1-926836-49-2 1. National characteristics, Canadian, in art. 2. Identity (Psychology) — Canada. 3. Identity (Psychology) in art. 4. Culture in art. 5. Arts, Canadian. I. Mannani, Manijeh, 1964– II. Thompson, Veronica, 1963– FC95.5.S45 2012 700.971 C2011-905793-X We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for our publishing activities. Assistance provided by the Government of Alberta, Alberta Multimedia De- velopment Fund. Please contact AU Press, Athabasca University at [email protected] for permissions and copyright information. contents selves and subjectivities 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 This page intentionally left blank 1 Selves and Subjectivities Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson Canadian identity and its manifestations in the arts are the cen tral themes in Selves and Subjectivities, a collection of essays that explores emerging concepts about the representation of the Self and the Other in contemporary Canadian arts and culture. The essays touch upon a variety of issues, most notably gender and sexuality, displacement, trauma, performativity, and linguistic diversity on at least two levels: the individual and the collec tive. The original call for papers for this collection was broadly conceived to address emerging concepts of identity formation. To our delight, the majority of the submissions had a Canadian focus, which is reflected in these selections. The response made apparent the continuing problematics of identity and the cen trality of this debate within the Canadian imagination.
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