Mapping the contradictions and ambiguities in the cultural politics of Canadian identity, The House of Difference opens up new understandings of the operations of tolerance and Western liberalism in a supposedly post-colonial era. Combining an analysis of the construction of national identity in bot
Identity: Community, Culture, Difference
β Scribed by Jonathan Rutherford
- Publisher
- Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 171
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This collection of essays addresses the issues and concerns raised by the new emphasis on society, not as a series of homgeneous, interlocking blocs, but as a plethora of different, sometimes overlapping and often conflicting communities.
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