Making It Like a Man

Canadian Masculinities in Practice
Herausgeber: Ramsay, Christine

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6 Stranger Than Paradise: Immigration and Impaired Masculinities Christina Stojanova Many examples from recent Quebec cinema are used in this chapter to investigate masculinity and the immigrant experience in québécois culture, where the conflicting discourses of Canadian multiculturalism, separatism, and francophone racism and xenophobia cluster together to create profound anxiety for male immigrants.

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• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781554583270
• ISBN-10: 1554583276
• Artikelnr.: 32896729

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Table of Contents for
Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice, edited by
Christine Ramsay
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Christine Ramsay
I. Identity, Agency, and Manliness in the Colonial and the National
1. Carnival and Masculinity in the Travel Fiction of James De Mille Ken
Wilson
2. "No Money, but Muscle and Pluck": Cultivating Trans-Imperial Manliness
for the Fields of Empire, 1870-1901 Jarett Henderson
3. Who's on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB's Second World
War Series "Canada Carries On" Michael Brendan Baker
II. Emotional Geographies of Anxiety, Eros, and Impairment
4. Making Art Like a Man! David Garneau
5. "Above Mere Men": The Heterogeneous Male in Attila Richard Lukacs Piet
Defraeye
6. Stranger Than Paradise: Immigration and Impaired Masculinities
Christina Stojanova
III. The Minority Male
7. The "Hood" Reconfigured: Black Masculinity in Rude D.L. McGregor and
Sheila Petty
8. "Keepin' It Real"? Masculinity, Indigeneity, and Media Representations
of Gangsta Rap in Regina Charity Marsh
9. Fixing Stories "Is Sure a Lot of Work": Watching "the Men's Dance" in
Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water Peter Cumming
10. Masculinity in a Minority Setting: The Emblematic Body in Simone
Chaput's Le coulonneux Nicole Côté
IV. Capitalized, Corporatized, Compromised Men
11. The Politics of Marginalization at the Centre: Canadian Masculinities
and Global Capitalism in Douglas Coupland's Generation X Kit Dobson
12. Dangerous Homosexualities and Disturbing Masculinities: The Disabling
Rhetoric of Difference in Barbara Gowdy's Mister Sandman Sally S. Hayward
V. Abject Masculinities
13. What Do Heterosexual Men Want? Or, "The (Wandering) Queer Eye on the
(Straight) Guy" Thomas Waugh
14. Boy to the Power of Three: Toronto's Drag Kings Bobby Noble
15. Life Without Death? Space, Affect, and Masculine Identity in the Work
of Frank Cole Christine Ramsay
Bibliography
Biographical Notes
Index
Contributors' Bios
Michael Baker (Ph.D., McGill University) is the FQRSC Postdoctoral Fellow
in the Centre for Cinema Studies, Department of Theatre and Film, at the
University of British Columbia. He is co-editor of Challenge for Change:
Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada (with Thomas
Waugh and Ezra Winton) and author of numerous book chapters and journal
articles on film and media.
Nicole Côté is Associate Professor at the Department of Literature and
Communication, University of Sherbrooke. She has published a number of
articles and chapters on Quebec and on Franco- and Anglo-Canadian
literatures. She has translated several Canadian authors and has edited two
volumes of short stories, which she also translated: Nouvelles du Canada
anglais (1999), an anthology; and Vers le rivage (2004), stories from Mavis
Gallant ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s. She also co-edited Varieties
of Exiles: New Essays on Mavis Gallant (2002), and Expressions culturelles
de la francophonie mondiale (2008). She is French book review editor for
Journal of Canadian Studies and is an editorial board member of Analyses.
Her research centres on questions of identity, gender, and minorities, as
well as on questions of cultural transfers.
Peter E. Cumming is Associate Professor of Children's Literature and
Culture and is Coordinator of the Children's Studies Program at York
University. His M.A. thesis, "Life After Man: 'New' Men in Canadian
Fiction," and his Ph.D. dissertation, "Some 'Male' from Canada 'Post':
Heterosexual Masculinities in Contemporary Canadian Writing," focus on
constructions of masculinities in contemporary Canadian writing, including
in the works of Robert Kroetsch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Leon Rooke, Leonard
Cohen, Brian Fawcett, Thomas King, and Michael Ondaatje. As a teacher,
consultant, and writer, Peter worked for six years in Inuit communities in
Nunavut. Peter has taught Children's Literature, Canadian Literature, First
Nations Literature, Creative and Expository Writing, Theatre, and Film at
Guelph and York Universities as well as the University of Western Ontario.
He is also a children's author (A Horse Called Farmer, Mogul and Me, Out on
the Ice in the Middle of the Bay) and playwright in theatre for young
audiences (including the bilingual plays Ti-Jean and Snowdreams). Peter is
President of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People
(ARCYP).
Piet Defraeye is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in
the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. He is a drama critic,
theorist, director, and dramaturge. Before coming to the University of
Alberta, he taught and directed in Belgium, Toronto, and Fredericton.
Recent directing credits include Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen (1999) and Von
Kleist's Amphitryon (2002). His areas of specialization include dramaturgy,
performance studies, theatre theory and modern drama, theatre of
provocation, audience reception, Quebec theatre, and European theatre
practices.
Kit Dobson is Assis tant Professor in the Department of English at
Calgary's Mount Royal University, where he works in Canadian Literature,
Globalization Studies, and Film. His first book, Transnational Canadas:
Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization, was published by Wilfrid
Laurier University Press in 2009.
David Garneau is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of
Regina. He was born and raised in Edmonton, received most of his
postsecondary education (B.F.A. Painting and Drawing, M.A. English
Literature) at the University of Calgary, and taught at the Alberta College
of Art and Design for five years before moving to Regina in 1999. His
practice includes painting, drawing, curation, and critical writing. His
solo exhibition, Cowboys and Indians (and Métis?), toured Canada, 2003-7.
His work often engages issues of nature, history, masculinity, and Métis
identity. His artworks are in the collections of the Canadian Museum of
Civilization, the Canadian Parliament, the Indian and Inuit Art Centre, the
Glenbow Museum, the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and many other public and
private collections. He has curated several large group exhibitions: The
End of the World (as we know it), Picture Windows: New Abstraction,
Transcendent Squares, Sophisticated Folk, Contested Histories, and Making
It Like a Man! Garneau has written numerous catalogue essays and reviews
and was a co-founder and co-editor of Artichoke and Cameo magazines. He is
currently exploring the Carlton Trail and roadkill as landscape subjects
and working on curatorial projects featuring contemporary Aboriginal art
exchanges between Canada and Australia.
Sally Hayward received her Ph.D. in 2006 from the Department of English and
Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Since 2007 she has worked as an
instructor in the Academic Writing Program at the University of Lethbridge.
Her research focuses on the rhetorical and narrative construction of
disability in literature, medicine, the law, and the media. More
specifically, she analyzes how and why people with disabilities are either
appropriated by or occluded from the national imaginary. Her interest in
disability and masculinity is reflected in the work she has done on the
Robert Latimer case as well as in "'Those Who Cannot Work': An Exploration
of Disabled Men and Masculinity in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the
London Poor," which was published in Prose Studies, and in "(Dis)Enabling
Masculinities: The Word and the Body, Class Politics, and Male Sexuality in
El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile," which was published in African
Masculinities.
Jarett Henderson completed his M.A. in Western Canadian social history at
the University of Manitoba in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Canadian history at
York University in 2010. His research interests include, but are not
limited to, the intimate intersection of domestic and political life, the
conflict between colonial and imperial states, and how the lived history of
nineteenth-century imperialism was affected by notions of gender, race,
status, and sexuality. He has taught Canadian history in Winnipeg, Toronto,
and Oshawa and is currently completing a manuscript on Lord Durham's 1838
administration.
Charity Marsh holds the Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and
Performance in the Department of Media Production and Studies at the
University of Regina. She completed her Ph.D. in Popular Studies and
Ethnomusicology at York University. Her thesis was titled "Raving Cyborgs,
Queering Practices, and Discourses of Freedom: The Search for Meaning in
Toronto's Rave Culture." Her current research focuses on interactive media
and performance and how cultures and practices associated with this broad
category contribute to dialogues concerning regionalism, cultural identity,
and community specifically in western and northern Canada, and more
generally on a global scale. In 2007 she was awarded a Canadian Foundation
for Innovation Grant and a Saskatchewan Fund for Innovation and Science
grant to develop the Interactive Media and Performance Labs as a way to
support her ongoing research in the following areas: (1) Canadian
(Indigenous) Hip-Hop Cultures; (2) DJ Cultures, including EDM, Club
Culture, Rave Culture, Techno, Psy-Trance, and online, community, and
pirate radio; and (3) Isolation, Identity, and Space: Production and
Performance of Popular Music in Western and Northern Canada. In her
artistic practices, she incorporates interdisciplinary approaches and
multiple media, including turntables, video, radio broadcasting, text, and
soundscape composition.
Donna-Lynne McGregor is an independent screenwriter who focuses on film,
television, and digital media screenwriting as an artistic practice that
contributes to the development of discourse and theory in popular media.
She received her M.F.A. in Film and Video Production from the University of
Regina in 2007 and was the recipient of the University of Regina Governor
General's Academic Gold Medal in 2008. In partnership with co-writer Chris
Cunningham, she has written several half-hour comedies, TV series pilots,
and feature-length thrillers and dramas, several of which have garnered
awards.
Bobby Noble is an Associate Professor of Sexuality and Gender Studies at
the School of Women's Studies at York University. He completed his Ph.D. at
York University in 2000 and, after teaching on the west coast at the
University of Victoria, returned to join the School of Women's Studies at
York University in July 2006. His research focuses on sexuality, gender,
anti-racist whiteness, and feminist cultural studies. In particular, his
work looks at the intersections of masculinity, embodiment, and sexuality
in the fields of transsexual/transgender studies, queer theory, and
cultural studies.
Sheila Petty is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Regina. She
has written extensively on issues of cultural representation, identity, and
nation in African and African diasporic cinema and new media, and has
curated film, television, and new media exhibitions for galleries across
Canada. She is author of Contact Zones: Memory, Origin and Discourses in
Black Diasporic Cinema. She is leader of an interdisciplinary research
group and New Media Studio Laboratory that spans computer science,
engineering, and fine arts.
Christine Ramsay is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the
University of Regina. She is a member of the editorial boards of Topia:
Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies and Imaginations: Journal of
Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Her research is in the areas of Canadian and
Saskatchewan cinemas, masculinities in contemporary cinemas, the culture of
cities, and philosophies of identity. She has published in several
anthologies and journals, including Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada,
Expressions culturelles de la francophonie mondiale, Self Portrait II:
Cinema in Canada, Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture, North of
Everything: English Canadian Cinema since 1980, Canada's Greatest Films,
The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, and Post Script. She is currently
editing an anthology with Randal Rogers entitled Mind the Gap! Saskatchewan
Cultural Spaces (Canadian Plains Research Center, forthcoming 2012).
Christina Stojanova is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the
University of Regina. Her areas of research include cultural semiotics of
ethnic and immigrant representation; philosophical, psychoanalytical, and
religious sources of identity formation; and theories of propaganda and
persuasion in media and visual arts. Among her major publications are
chapters in Traditions in World Cinema, Horror International, and The
Cinema of Eastern Europe. She is co-editor, with Bela Szabados, of the
critical anthology Wittgenstein at the Movies: Cinematic Investigations.
She is co-editor of the anthology The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard (Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, forthcoming 2012) and is currently at work on her
book New Romanian Cinema for University of Edinburgh Press.
Thomas Waugh has since 1976 taught Film Studies at Concordia University,
where he has also developed curriculum in Queer Studies and on AIDS. He has
lectured, programmed, and published extensively on documentary, queer
media, and sexual representation, as well as on the national cinemas of
Canada and India. Among his books are "Show Us Life": Towards a History and
Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary; Hard to Imagine: Gay Male
Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall; The
Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema; The Romance of
Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas; and
(forthcoming) The Right to Play Oneself: Essays on Documentary by Thomas
Waugh 1976-2001 and Challenge for Change / Société nouvelle: The Collection
(coedited with Ezra Winton and Michael Baker).
Ken Wilson lectures in English and Film Studies at the University of
Regina. He has worked as a freelance writer for Saskatchewan Communications
Network's series Prairie Night at the Movies and Prairie Eye. A past
president of the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, he has served as editor
of the Filmpool's Splice Magazine and has made experimental and
site-specific films for several Saskatchewan-based arts events, including
Crossfiring / Mama Wetotan, and, most recently, Windblown / Rafales.