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Sexing the Maple: A Canadian Sourcebook de Richard Cavell

Sexing the Maple: A Canadian Sourcebook

Editat de Richard Cavell, Peter Dickinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2006

Apreciem Sexing the Maple ca fiind o resursă academică fundamentală care reușește să pună în dialog literatura canadiană cu discursul sociopolitic despre identitate. Ediția se distinge prin caracterul său interactiv, fiind concepută special pentru învățământul terțiar. Aceasta nu este doar o culegere de texte literare, ci un instrument de lucru care juxtapune opere de ficțiune semnate de Alice Munro sau Irving Layton cu documente de arhivă și analize critice, oferind o perspectivă tridimensională asupra evoluției moravurilor și a politicilor sexuale în Canada.

Recomandăm acest volum ca o alternativă la Queerly Canadian de Maureen FitzGerald pentru cursurile de studii culturale sau istoria ideilor. În timp ce titlul menționat se concentrează pe eseuri academice, Sexing the Maple aduce avantajul unei abordări hibride, integrând voci literare diverse cu texte teoretice semnate de figuri precum Marshall McLuhan. Această abordare este coerentă cu opera anterioară a editorului Richard Cavell, cunoscut pentru lucrări precum Remediating McLuhan, continuând explorarea intersecțiilor dintre mediul cultural și formarea identității naționale.

Structura volumului este riguros organizată pe piloni tematici care ghidează cititorul de la sfera privată a familiei către reprezentările media și intervențiile medicale. Începând cu o introducere teoretică consistentă, cuprinsul indică o progresie de la normele sociale tradiționale, exemplificate prin fragmente de etichetă din anii '40, până la discuții contemporane despre tehnologia reproducerii sau cenzură. Credem că această organizare permite o înțelegere profundă a modului în care sexualitatea a fost codificată și negociată în spațiul public canadian de-a lungul deceniilor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781551114866
ISBN-10: 1551114860
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Editura: BROADVIEW PR
Colecția Broadview Press
Locul publicării:Peterborough, Canada

De ce să citești această carte

Această antologie este esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii interesați de literatura canadiană și studiile de gen. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă istorică rară, având acces la documente anterior indisponibile și la analize critice care leagă direct arta de politicile identitare. Este un volum care transformă lectura într-o experiență de cercetare activă prin juxtapunerea inedită a unor autori clasici cu texte teoretice provocatoare.

Despre autor

Richard Cavell este profesor în cadrul Departamentului de Engleză și director fondator al Centrului Internațional de Studii Canadiene de la University of British Columbia. Expert recunoscut în teoria media, este autorul lucrării „McLuhan in Space”, expertiza sa fiind vizibilă în modul în care integrează perspectivele teoretice ale lui McLuhan în contextul culturii canadiene. Peter Dickinson, profesor la Simon Fraser University, completează echipa editorială prin experiența sa în teoria queer și naționalism, fiind autorul volumului de referință „Here is Queer”. Împreună, cei doi editori oferă o viziune multidisciplinară asupra literaturii canadiene.

Recenzii

Sexing the Maple is a unique sourcebook designed to raise issues of nationalism and sexuality in Canada through a rich and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and history. Structured so as to provide an interactive study of these issues, the collection considers topics as wide-ranging as First Nations sexuality, censorship, assisted reproduction, and religion.
Literary works by Alice Munro, Jane Rule, Timothy Findley, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Lynn Crosbie, Michael Turner, and many others are juxtaposed with criticism and historical documents, many of which were previously out of print or unavailable. Selections include Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 article “The Future of Sex” and excerpts from Stan Persky and John Dixon’s Kiddie Porn, SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe, and Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale.

“I read this brave book in a canoe. A tribute both to its Canadianness and to Cavell and Dickinson’s balancing act in assembling this rich stew of literary nuggets and historical analysis. Sexing the Maple will be an indispensable resource for any future exploration of sexuality and gender in English Canada whether through a cultural or a historical point of view. Indeed its provocative lesson is that the two cannot be separated in any serious excursion into sexuality in this country or any other. Canonical and non-canonical, queer, queering and beyond, here is a sturdy paddle for those upcoming rapids.” — Thomas Waugh, Concordia University
“Sexing the Maple takes sex out of Canada’s cultural closet. Richard Cavell and Peter Dickinson have assembled an outstanding anthology with fiction and poetry by leading Canadian writers, rare and out-of-print material, and a superb selection of critical articles. The historical and cultural range of topics is impressive, covering the gamut of Canuck sex from anti-masturbation tracts and weird sex in Canadian film to reproductive laws and transgender surgery. This is the first book to theorize and document how stories about our sexualities articulate our sense of Canadian nationhood. The research is impeccable, the theorizing trailblazing, the writing compelling. This book is bold, ambitious, and provocative.” — Irene Gammel, Ryerson University

Descriere

Sexing the Maple is a unique sourcebook designed to raise issues of nationalism and sexuality in Canada through a rich and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and history. Structured so as to provide an interactive study of these issues, the collection considers topics as wide-ranging as First Nations sexuality, censorship, assisted reproduction, and religion.
Literary works by Alice Munro, Jane Rule, Timothy Findley, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Lynn Crosbie, Michael Turner, and many others are juxtaposed with criticism and historical documents, many of which were previously out of print or unavailable. Selections include Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 article “The Future of Sex” and excerpts from Stan Persky and John Dixon’s Kiddie Porn, SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe, and Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Sex and Canada: A Theoretical Introduction
Sex and the Family
Alice Munro, “Family Furnishings,” Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
Ivan E. Coyote, “Just Like My Dad,” Boys Like Her (1998)
Gertrude Pringle, from Etiquette in Canada (1949)
Michael Bliss, “‘Pure Books on Avoided Subjects’: Pre-Freudian SexualIdeas in Canada,” Historical Papers (1970)
Mariana Valverde, “Families, Private Property, and the State:
The Dionnes and the Toronto Stork Derby,” Journal of CanadianStudies 29.4 (1994–95)
Sex and Media
Irving Layton, “The Improved Binoculars,” Collected Poems (1971)
Persimmon Blackridge, from Prozac Highway (1997)
Nicole Markotic, from Yellow Pages: A Catalogue of Intentions (1995)
Marshall McLuhan and George B. Leonard, “The Future of Sex,”
Look Magazine (1967)
Katherine Monk, from Weird Sex and Snowshoes (2001)
Sex and Medicine
Derek McCormack, “Stargaze,” Dark Rides (1996)
Trish Salah, “Surgical Diary,” Wanting in Arabic (2002)
Patricia Baird, et al., Proceed with Care: Final Report of the Royal Commission
on New Reproductive Technologies: Summary and Highlights (1993)
John Colapinto, from As Nature Made Him (2000)
Sex and Gender
Dorothy Livesay, “On Looking into Henry Moore,” Collected Poems (1972)
Jane Rule, “The Killer Dyke and the Lady,” Outlander (1981)
Daphne Marlatt, from Ana Historic (1988)
Lyndell Montgomery, “Border Crossing: On the Edge,” Boys Like Her (1998)
Roberta Hamilton, “Representation and Subjectivity: Women as Sexual
Objects,” Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Feminist Perspectives on CanadianSociety (2004)
Sex and Race
SKY Lee, from Disappearing Moon Café (1990)
Ian Iqbal Rashid, “An/other Country,” from Black Markets, White Boyfriendsand other acts of elision (1991)
Gregory Scofield, from Thunder Through My Veins: Memories of a MétisChildhood (1999)
Martin Cannon, “The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality,” CanadianJournal of Native Studies 18.1 (1998)
Karen Dubinsky and Adam Givertz, “‘It was Only a Matter of Passion’:
Masculinity and Sexual Danger,” Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays inFemininity and Masculinity in Canada (1999)
Sex and Religion
Timothy Findley, from Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)
Leonard Cohen, from Beautiful Losers (1966)
Margaret Atwood, from The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Nancy Christie, “Sacred Sex: The United Church and the Privatization
of the Family in Post-War Canada,” Households of Faith (2002)
Iain A.G. Barrie, “A Broken Trust: Canadian Priests, Brothers,
Pedophilia, and the Media,” Sex, Religion, Media (2002)
Sex and the Law
Michael Turner, from The Pornographer’s Poem (1999
Lynn Crosbie, from Paul’s Case (1997)
Jane Rule, Detained at Customs: Jane Rule Testifies at the Little Sister’s Trial (1995)
Gary Kinsman, “‘These Things May Lead to the Tragedy of Our Species’:
The Emergence of Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and Heterosexualityin Canada,” The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities (1996)
Stan Persky and John Dixon, from On Kiddie Porn (2001)
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