Imagining Resistance

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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 155458311X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Book Synopsis Imagining Resistance by : J. Keri Cronin

Download or read book Imagining Resistance written by J. Keri Cronin and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical practice is spread through the book in a series of short interventions, ranging from the Refus global to anarchist-inspired art, and from Aboriginal curatorial interventions to culture jamming. In each, the historical record is mined to rewrite and reverse Canadian art history—reworked here to illuminate the series of oppositional artistic endeavours that are often mentioned in discussions of Canadian art but rarely acknowledged as having an alternative history of their own. ?p Alongside, authors consider case studies as diverse as the anti-war work done by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Montreal and Toronto, recent exhibitions of activist art in Canadian institutions, radical films, performance art, protests against the Olympics, interventions into anti-immigrant sentiment in Montreal, and work by Iroquois photographer Jeff Thomas. Taken together, the writings in Imagining Resistance touch on the local, the global, the national, and post-national to imagine a very different landscape of cultural practice in Canada.

Total Refusal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Total Refusal by : Paul-Émile Borduas

Download or read book Total Refusal written by Paul-Émile Borduas and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art historian Dennis Reid has called Refu global 'the single most important social document in Quebec history and the most important aesthetic statement a Canadian has ever made'. This volume contains Paul Emile Borduas' famous lead manifesto, newly translated, along with other texts which made up the complete Total Refusal published in 1948 by a heterogeneous group of artists called the Automatists of Montreal. It is illustrated with photographs from the period and introduced with historical and biographical notes.

Suzanne

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Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770565078
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Suzanne by : Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Download or read book Suzanne written by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her grandmother Suzanne, an artist who abandoned her husband and children in her youth and never looked back. The Escape Artist is a fictionalized account of Suzanne’s life over 85 years, taking readers through Québec’s Quiet Revolution and the American civil rights movement, offering a portrait of a volatile woman on the margins of history.

Looking Beyond Borderlines

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317552741
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Looking Beyond Borderlines by : Lee Rodney

Download or read book Looking Beyond Borderlines written by Lee Rodney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture. This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in the 19th century and how tropes of visuality are central to their production and meaning. Rodney links ongoing discussions in political geography and visual culture in new ways to demonstrate how contemporary American borders exhibit security as a display strategy that is resisted and undermined through a variety of cultural practices.

Regulating Difference

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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978809603
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Book Synopsis Regulating Difference by : Marian Burchardt

Download or read book Regulating Difference written by Marian Burchardt and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Diversity, Secularism and Nationhood -- Theorizing Religious Diversity and Secularism -- Contesting Religious Diversity and Secularism -- Spatializing Religious Diversity: Urban Administration, Infrastructure and Emplacement -- The Limits of Religious Diversity: Regulating Full-Face Coverings -- Making Claims to Religion as Culture: The Rise of Heritage Religion.

Claude Vivier

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580464858
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Claude Vivier by : Bob Gilmore

Download or read book Claude Vivier written by Bob Gilmore and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was murdered in Paris at the age of thirty-four. Based on unrestricted access to Vivier's personal archives, this book is the first to tell his story. Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has captivated audiences around the world. But the French-Canadian composer is remembered also because of the dramatic circumstances of his death: he was found murdered in his Paris apartment at the age of thirty-four. Given unrestricted access to Vivier's archives and interviews with Vivier's family, teachers, friends, and colleagues, musicologist and biographer Bob Gilmore tells here the full story of Vivier's fascinating life, from his abandonment as a child in a Montreal orphanage to his posthumous acclaim as one of the leading composers of his generation. Expelled from a religious school at seventeen for "lack of maturity," Vivier gave up his ambition to join the priesthood to study composition. Between 1976 and 1983 Vivier wrote the works on which his reputation rests, including Lonely Child, Bouchara, and the operas Kopernikus and Marco Polo. He was also an outspoken presence in the Montreal arts world and gay scene. Vivier left Quebec for Paris in 1982 to work on a new opera, the composition of which was interrupted by his murder. On his desk wasthe manuscript of his last work, uncannily entitled "Do You Believe in the Immortality of the Soul." Vivier's is a tragic but life-affirming story, intimately connected to his passionate music. Bob Gilmore was a notedmusicologist and performer who taught at Brunel University in London. He wrote or edited five previous books, including Harry Partch: A Biography.

Expo 67

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144266021X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Expo 67 by : Rhona Richman Kenneally

Download or read book Expo 67 written by Rhona Richman Kenneally and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-12-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by critics as a laboratory for urban and architectural design as well as for cultural exchange, intended to enhance global understanding and international cooperation. This collection of essays brings new critical perspectives to Expo 67, an event that left behind a significant material and imaginative legacy. The contributors to this volume reflect a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and address Expo 67 across a broad spectrum ranging from architecture and film to more ephemeral markers such as postcards, menus, pavilion displays, or the uniforms of the hostesses employed on the site. Collectively, the essays explore issues of nationalism, the interplay of tradition and modernity, twentieth-century discourse about urban experience, and the enduring impact of Expo 67's technological experimentation. Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir is a compelling examination of a world's fair that had a profound impact locally, nationally, and internationally.

The Blue Shirts

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Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776624695
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blue Shirts by : Hugues Théorêt

Download or read book The Blue Shirts written by Hugues Théorêt and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish conspiracy wherever he turned and his views resonated with his followers who, like him, sought a scapegoat for all the ills eroding society. Even after his imprisonment during the Second World War, the fanatical Adrien Arcand continued his correspondence with those on the frontlines of anti-semitism. Until his death in 1967, he pursued his campaign of propaganda against communists and Jews. Hugues Théorêt describes a dark period in Quebec’s ideological history using an objective approach and careful, rigorous research in this book, which won the 2015 Canada Prize (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences).

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000281868
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis French North America in the Shadows of Conquest by : Ryan André Brasseaux

Download or read book French North America in the Shadows of Conquest written by Ryan André Brasseaux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across the long twentieth century, revealing hidden histories that so deeply shaped the course of North America. Modern French North America was born from the process of coming to terms with the idea of conquest after the fall of New France. The memory of conquest still haunts those 20 million Francophones who call North America home. The book re-examines the contours of North American history by emphasizing alliances between Acadians, Cajuns, and Québécois and French Canadians in their attempt to present a unified challenge against the threat of assimilation, linguistic extinction, and Anglophone hegemony. It explores cultural trauma narratives and the social networks Francophones constructed and shows how North American history looks radically different from their perspective. This book presents a missing chapter in the annals of linguistic and ethnic differences on a continent defined, in part, by its histories of dispossession. It will be of interest to scholars and students of American and Canadian history, particularly those interested in French North America, as well as ethnic and cultural studies, comparative history, the American South, and migration.

The Encyclopedia of the Novel

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118723899
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of the Novel by : Peter Melville Logan

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Novel written by Peter Melville Logan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.

America Unbound

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826357598
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis America Unbound by : Antonio Barrenechea

Download or read book America Unbound written by Antonio Barrenechea and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes’s Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. The encyclopedic novel has particular generic characteristics that serve these writers as a vehicle for the reincorporation of hemispheric histories. Starting with an examination of Moby-Dick as precursor, Barrenechea shows how this narrative genre allows Fuentes, Poulin, and Silko to reflect the interconnected world of today, as well as to dramatize indigenous and colonial values in their narratives. His close attention to written documents, visual representations, and oral traditions in these encyclopedic novels sheds light on their comparative cultural relations and the New World from pole to pole. This study amplifies the scope of “America” across cultures and languages, time and tradition.

Allied Arts

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773539603
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Allied Arts by : Sandra Alfoldy

Download or read book Allied Arts written by Sandra Alfoldy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering a wide range of craftspeople, materials, and forms, The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings.

Moon Montréal

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Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1640493158
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Moon Montréal by : Andrea Bennett

Download or read book Moon Montréal written by Andrea Bennett and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montréal is filled with surprises: vine-covered alleys, unique spiral staircases, and festivals around every corner. Immerse yourself in this distinctly Québécois city with Moon Montréal. Explore the City: Navigate by neighborhood or by activity with color-coded maps, or follow one of our guided neighborhood walks See the Sights: Stroll through Montréal's history on rue St-Paul, the city's oldest street. Take a self-guided bike tour and picnic at the Parc du Mont-Royal. Visit the beautiful Notre-Dame Basilica and enjoy an exhibit at the Montréal Fine Arts Museum before ending your day with a sunset view from one of the city's scenic lookouts Get a Taste of the City: Enjoy fresh crêpes at the Marché Jean-Talon, countless spots to wine and dine al-fresco, beautiful farm-to-table restaurants, and poutine on nearly every menu Bars and Nightlife: Sample Montréal's craft beer scene at rooftop bars, dance the night away to up-and-coming bands and DJs, or watch Cirque du Soleil perform in their hometown Local Advice: Journalist and tour guide Andrea Bennett shares her love of her adopted city Itineraries: All accessible by bus, train, or public transit, including "The Best of Montréal," "The City with Kids," and "A Taste of Montréal" Tips for Travelers including lists of the best views, people-watching spots, romantic getaways, coffee shops, and more, plus advice for LGBTQ visitors, travelers with disabilities, and families with children Full-Color, Helpful Photos and Detailed Maps Maps and Tools: Moon provides background information on the history and culture of Montréal, as well as an easy-to-read foldout map to use on the go With Moon Montréal's practical tips and local know-how, you can plan your trip your way. Exploring the area? Check out Moon Québec City or Moon Atlantic Canada.

Moon Montréal & Québec City

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Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1612388418
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Moon Montréal & Québec City by : Sacha Jackson

Download or read book Moon Montréal & Québec City written by Sacha Jackson and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Sacha Jackson guides travelers to the highlights of Montréal and Québec City, from the trendy bars, restaurants, and festivals of Montréal to the original city walls and historic center of Québec City. Jackson also offers unique trip ideas like Romantic Weekend Getaways and Montréal on the Cheap. Complete with details on kayaking the Lachine canal, eating your own weight in poutine, and participating in the concerts, parades, and sleigh races of the Carnaval de Québec, Moon Montréal & Québec City gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.

Literature and Painting In Quebec

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442698306
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature and Painting In Quebec by : William J. Berg

Download or read book Literature and Painting In Quebec written by William J. Berg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent images and themes within these creations through the most significant periods in the development of a Quebecois identity that was threatened initially by the wilderness and indigenous populations, and later by the dominance of British and American influences. Focusing on the interplay between nature and culture in landscape representation, Literature and Painting in Quebec contends that both have reflected and fashioned the meaning of French-Canadian nationhood. As such, Literature and Painting in Quebec presents a new perspective to approach the notion of national identity, a quest that few groups have engaged in more persistently than the Quebecois.

Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773551921
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955 by : Lora Senechal Carney

Download or read book Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955 written by Lora Senechal Carney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Roaring Twenties and the Group of Seven to the Automatistes and the early Cold War, Canadian artists lived through and embodied an era of global tumult and change. With an interweaving of historical narrative, lavish illustrations, and writings by many of Canada's most revered cultural figures, Lora Senechal Carney illuminates the lives, perspectives, and works of the era's painters and provides glimpses of the sculptors, poets, dancers, critics, and filmmakers with whom they associated. Canadian Painters in a Modern World gives readers direct access to a carefully curated selection of writings, artworks, photos, and other documents that help to reconstruct the public spheres in which artists including Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, Alex Colville, Lawren Harris, David Milne, and Pegi Nicol MacLeod circulated. Each of the book’s eight chapters consists of a narrative about a key issue or debate, focusing on the relationship of art to politics and society, and on how these are negotiated in an individual's life. Relating artistic engagement with and responses to the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Cold War, Senechal Carney discovers a common desire for new connections between art and life. Revealing continuities, ruptures, and watershed moments, Canadian Painters in a Modern World showcases artistic production within specific socio-political contexts to shed new light on Canadian art during three decades of conflict and crisis.

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory

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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554588626
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Book Synopsis Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory by : Eva C. Karpinski

Download or read book Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory written by Eva C. Karpinski and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars, extend Godard’s work through engagements with her published texts in the spirit of creative interchange and intergenerational relay of ideas. Their essays resonate with Godard’s innovative scholarship situated at the intersection of such fields as literary studies, cultural studies, translation studies, feminist theory, arts criticism, social activism, institutional analysis, and public memory. In pursuit of unexpected linkages and connections, the essays venture beyond generic and disciplinary borders, zeroing in on Godard’s transdisciplinary practice that has been extremely influential in the way that it framed questions and modeled interventions for the study of Canadian, Québécois, and Acadian literatures and cultures. The authors work with the archives ranging from Canadian government policies and documents, to publications concerning white supremacist organizations in Southern Ontario, online materials from a Toronto-based transgender arts festival, a photographic mural installation commemorating the Montreal Massacre, and the works of such writers and artists as Marie Clements, Nicole Brossard, France Daigle, Nancy Huston, Yvette Nolan, Gail Scott, Denise Desautels, Louise Warren, Rebecca Belmore, Vera Frenkel, Robert Lepage, and Janet Cardiff.