8 research outputs found

    A canadian response to the iconography of war propaganda in the British Empire: Nellie McClung’s Politeia Pax Feminina

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    Comme l’écrivait rĂ©cemment Margaret Atwood dans Story of a Nation (2001), l’éthique canadienne de considĂ©ration pour autrui fait aujourd’hui partie de l’identitĂ© nationale autant que le respect de la diversitĂ© et du multiculturalisme. Il faut ajouter Ă  ce propos le lien que l’on peut Ă©tablir entre l’impact de la guerre et le rĂŽle de la paix dans le processus actuel de construction d’une identitĂ© nationale canadienne. En dĂ©pit du fait que le Canada ne soit pas aujourd’hui une nation militaire mais plutĂŽt une nation de soldats de la paix, la guerre, comme c’est le cas pour toute nation, a eu un rĂŽle instrumental dans le processus de construction de la nation. En rĂ©alitĂ©, « c’est la guerre qui a fait le Canada », comme l’annonçait la page d’accueil du MusĂ©e canadien de la guerre, mise en ligne il y a peu. Cependant, « le Canada n’a jamais Ă©tĂ© un enfant de chƓur dans le concert des nations ; il a participĂ© Ă  des guerres et a nĂ©gociĂ© ses avantages comme tous les autres. Pourtant, s’il faut que les nations projettent une image d’elles-mĂȘmes, il vaut certainement mieux que les Canadiens s’identifient Ă  la moralitĂ© incarnĂ©e et s’imaginent dans le rĂŽle d’arbitres plutĂŽt que celui de bouchers ou de bellicistes », note pertinemment J. L. Grantstein. En partant de ces observations, le prĂ©sent article remonte Ă  l’époque du Haut Empire et de la Grande Guerre, que l’on peut considĂ©rer comme la pierre angulaire de ces Ă©volutions. En s’appuyant sur le travail de critiques comme J. Turpin, J. Bethke-Elshtain et A. Carter pour dĂ©finir son cadre thĂ©orique, cet article examine la relation contestĂ©e entre maternitĂ©, paix et guerre, et l’impact de cette relation sur la construction d’une identitĂ© nationale et fĂ©minine en contexte de guerre. Cette analyse aborde en premier lieu du matĂ©riel de propagande, des Ɠuvres d’art et des reprĂ©sentations littĂ©raires de cette pĂ©riode qui semblent singuliĂšrement frappants. Puis, cet article se concentre sur l’Ɠuvre de l’écrivain, militante et critique fĂ©ministe canadienne, Nellie McClung, et son traitement plutĂŽt controversĂ© de ces questions. McLung Ă©tait, parmi d’autres, une pacifiste dĂ©clarĂ©e avant la Grande Guerre, mais devint une fervente partisane de l’engagement canadien pendant la guerre quand son fils se fit enrĂŽler. AprĂšs la guerre, finalement plutĂŽt dĂ©sillusionnĂ©e, elle revint Ă  ses idĂ©es pacifistes et prĂŽna une politique mondiale fĂ©minine autre, dĂ©signĂ©e comme « Politeia Pax Feminina » ; rĂ©ponse canadienne Ă  l’iconographie d’une guerre patriarcale et de sa propagande menĂ©es dans le contexte de l’Empire britannique. Cette position peut ĂȘtre considĂ©rĂ©e comme un premier signe du besoin actuel du Canada de se dĂ©finir dans le rĂŽle d’arbitre mentionnĂ© prĂ©cĂ©demment

    Beyond Conflicts and Borders: Reconciliation and Latinotopia

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    This entry sheds lights on the concept of “Reconciliation and Latinotopia” as a pressing and ever-more popular subject matter that takes us beyond conflicts and borders as well as the historical and geographical site of the Mexican American borderlands. It demonstrates that reconciliation is pivotal when discussing the United States. Historically speaking, one may go as far as to claim that reconciliation or, rather its absence, was the seed from which the Mexican American community emerged. Today, when addressing how to deal with the borderlands and how to go beyond this geographical site but also conflicts and dualities, reconciliation exerts a significant influence on the shaping of contemporary identities and the well-being of a community. Increasingly, the region is extending its influence to all parts of the United States and is gaining greater importance as an in-between space – in the sense of a glocal, geo-political and transcultural as well as aesthetic space beyond a third space – not only in the Americas but internationally. How and to what extent Latinotopia can eventually be perceived as a discursive site for reconciliation in the Third Millennium is the question this paper aims to answer by integrating socio-political, historical and literary works in an interdisciplinary manner and by suggesting considering Gilles Deleuze’s and FĂ©lix Guattari’s figure of the “rhizome” as an illustrative concept to capture Latinotopia theoretically and practically in further studies

    Moving towards Latinotopia

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    Latinotopia-USA: International Perspectives on the Transforming USA in the 21st Century

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    From all indications, Latinotopia is about to become an increasingly domestic influence as well as an international or rather transnational phenomenon triggered by an ever-growing Latino and Spanish-speaking population worldwide. Nevertheless, domestic and global politics as well as a large section of the (inter)national and interdisciplinary research community still do not pay sufficient attention to these striking developments and transformations in this Third Millennium. This LISA e-journal number aims to contribute to closing this research gap from an international and interdisciplinary angle, bringing together a broad roster of interested critics and specialists from far corners of the globe who submitted innovative critical and interdisciplinary vistas on the burgeoning real and discursive landscape of “Latinotopia-USA”

    Views of Canadian Cultures

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    When a German thinks of Canada, his or her image of this country is strongly determined by hetero-stereotypes. A survey which I conducted at the University of WĂŒrzburg in 2004 shows that German students of English know very little about Canadian literature, about Canadian geography and about Canadian society. What they do know best are preconceived images which reveal a Eurocentric view of the country. Among the few features of this image the most prominent are ‘the noble savage,’ ‘the lumberjack,’ ‘the mountie,’ ‘the sheer endless woods,’ ‘the moose,’ and ‘the beaver’. This romanticized image corresponds to a large extent to the image of Canada presented in 18th-century and 19th-century travel and exploration literature as well as in modern tourist brochures and travel guides which try to provide the traveller with a survival knowledge based on facts, figures and photographs
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