The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad
The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad features Canadian scholars who live and work outside Canada (or have recently returned to Canada) and who write and think deeply about identity construction. What happens when that Canadian is a scholar whose teaching, research and scholarship, profe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Canada and International Affairs
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction: The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad
- Chapter 1: Spatial Dislocation, Canadian Expats, and National Identity
- Part II: Exile, Scholarship, and Rethinking Canada and the Canadian Identity
- Chapter 2: Exile in America: Rendering Canadian History from the Margins
- Chapter 3: In the National Interest: Teaching about Canada and the Environment
- Chapter 4: Expatriate Scholarship in the Field of Canadian Studies: Gaining New Perspectives from a More Distant Vantage Point
- Part III: Multiple Layers of Externality
- Chapter 5: Race, the University, and Social Transformation
- Chapter 6: Teaching Indigenous Canada: Learning from “Externality”
- Chapter 7: Bringing Sexy Back: The Other
- Part IV: Remaining Unmoored – Externality and Uncertainty
- Chapter 8: Stranger, Expat, Immigrant: The Comparative Advantage, and the Challenges, of Indifference and Authenticity
- Chapter 9: Spatial Dislocation and Canadian Studies, or Thinking about Canada 6,000 Kilometres from Home
- Chapter 10: “Proving Canada”: A Canadian Writer in the American Academy
- Chapter 11: Lost in the Heart of Europe: Doing Canada among the Czechs
- Part V: Disciplinary Focus and the Question of Externality
- Chapter 12: Reading and Teaching Canadian Literature in Slovenia
- Chapter 13: Critical Distance: Unsettling Canada from Abroad
- Chapter 14: Systems of Canadian Studies: A Personal View
- Chapter 15: Cha(lle)nging Representations of Canada in Italy
- Part VI: Externality and Canadian and Professional Identities
- Chapter 16: Reflections from (the Very Near) Abroad – Being Canadian in the Canada/U.S. Borderlands
- Chapter 17: Living and Working in Mexico as a Canadian: Not so Difficult as One would Think
- Chapter 18: Peering Northward to Construct Canadian Identity: Why Canada?