IGS/SCT 530
REGulating the Anglo Canadian Subject in British Columbia
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Keyes
Course Description:
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The course will be informed by Michelle Foucault’s Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish. We will link Foucault’s discursive analysis of the modern mental health care and prison systems to a study of Anglo Canadian nationality from post World War II, in order to explore how deviance operates and is regulated by various cultural national institutions and how cultural others defy and resist these discursive frameworks.
The course will examine how Canadian cultural nationalism after the Second World War is shaped by elite state sponsored institutions like the CRTC, CBC, NFB, and Canada Council that work with and against the global hegemony of transnational media. It will necessarily trace the influence of American and British colonialism on the construction of Canadian identity as a series of "not that" statements that regulate Canadian identity within a discourse that tends to erase the legacy of the settler/colonialist.
This historical reading of cultural nationalism will examine primarily Western Canadian film, theatre, pageants, popular histories, and the federal “elitist" institutions used to shape culture and identity. It will examine issues of whiteness, regionalism, assimilation, race, ethnicity, gender, and official multiculturalism primarily in artistic texts like novels, poems, plays, pageant, public performances, music, television, and film.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course, student will have grasp
- How discursive formations operates to shape space, law, and citizens
- How Canadian cultural nationalism is a product of the post World War II climate that views nationalism with suspicion and seeks to negotiate regions, race, and ethnicity
- How Canadian cultural nationalism negotiates English, European, and American nationalisms to generate a nationalism that operates as a series of “not that” statements
- How Canadian cultural nationalism strives to erase the settler/colonial mentality by constructing Canadian identity around “bush” gardens
- How federal institutions helped to shape cultural nationalism.
- How Okanagan performances and films negotiated cultural nationalism and race
- How Canadian cultural nationalism operates as a utopian fiction supports by various government institutions.
FORMAT
This course will be delivered in a seminar format. Students are expected to have a rudimentary grasp of theories of nationalism. If they do not, a supplemental reading list will be furnished. Attendance and class participation are a must. Most of the material for this course beyond the course pack and books on reserve in the library will be available on VISTA via www.vista.ubc.ca. I assume students are familiar with this software. If not, I will demonstrate this software during the first meeting.
Students are expected to have read the material prior to the class and to generate a list of questions to facilitate discussion.
ONLINE ELEMENT: Vista
I will make the schedule of readings and screenings, supplementary material, and your marks available online via the Internet on Vista
ASSIGNMENTS
PERCENTAGE OF GRADE
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2@ 20 minutes seminars followed by 40 minutes of leading discussion. |
30 |
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2@Response paper based on readings. Students will create two response papers based on their seminars. Due a week after the delivery of the seminar. 8 (pages each) |
30 |
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1 research term paper of approximately 30 pages in length. |
40 |
All written assignments will conform to the MLA 6 edition form of documentation and be double-space and type written in Times New Roman 12 point font.
TEXTS
Foucault, Michelle. Madness and Civilization A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Intro. de José Barchilon; Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Vintage Books, 1973.
---. Discipline and Punish Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage, 1977.
COURSE PACK
The reading for this course will be supplied by me while some will be available on Vista. Via Vista’s calendar, I will let you know what you should have read and screened for each lecture. Bring the course pack and texts to every seminar meeting. The week-by-week schedule represents a rough outline of the trajectory for the course with material derived from this broad set of readings refined into a more manageable form in the course pack.
This course will be delivered as an inquiry-based method where student interest in specific areas will be folded into the theoretical trajectory of the course.
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AMBITIOUS SCHEDULE
The following 13 week schedule maps out a number of possible readings and offers many supplemental readings. Students’ interests in particular readings and texts will help give this schedule a tighter focus in terms of determining if we want to shift or prune readings and texts to emphasize different aspects.
Week 1 Setting the Stage
Review and possibly adjust course outline to reflect pedagogically sound decisions in how the course is offered.
Discuss
Sabine Milz. “Canadian University, Inc., and the Role of Canadian Criticism.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies 27.2 (2005): 127-39.
I will present Milz’s paper in the model of the Seminar format we will use for the term.
Screenings Clips from
- Legg, Stuart. The War for Men’s Minds Ottawa: NFB, 1943.
- Redbird, Duke. Charley Squash Goes to Town. Ottawa: NFB, 1969.
- Obomsawin, Alanis Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance. Ottawa: NFB, 1993.
Week 2 Discipline the National Subject
Sections of Discipline and Punish will be presented in relation to the Canadian National imaginary.
Supplemental:
Bahbahani, Kamilla. The Changing Face of Kelowna: Report on Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations. Kelowna: Intercultural Society of the Central Okanagan 6 June 2008. http://www.interculturalkelowna.com/docs/changing-face.pdf.
Haig-Brown. Celia. “Chapter 21: Resistance and Renewal: First Nations and Aboriginal Education in Canada.” Eds. Tania Das Gupta, Carl E. James, Roger C. A. Maaka, Grace-Edwads Galabuzi, and Chris Anderson. Toronto: Canadian Scholar Press, 2007. 74-82.168-78.
Hall, Stuart. “Chapter 7: The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power>” Eds. Tania Das Gupta, Carl E. James,
Roger C. A. Maaka, Grace-Edwads Galabuzi, and Chris Anderson. Toronto: Canadian Scholar Press, 2007. 56-64.
Razack, Sherene.Ed.Race, Space, And The Law: Unmapping A White Settler Society. Toronto, Ont.: Between the Lines 2002.
---. “Chapter 9: When Place Becomes Race.” Race and the Racialization: Essential Readings Eds. Tania Das Gupta, Carl E. James, Roger C. A. Maaka, Grace-Edwads Galabuzi, and Chris Anderson. Toronto: Canadian Scholar Press, 2007. 74-82.
“Says Racial Discrimination is Less Prevalent Than 50 Years Ago, But It Still Exists to Certain Degree” Kelowna Courier 1 June 1953: 1.
Screen Portions of these films
- Adreon, Franklin . Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders Republic Pictures,1953.
[Note: The library will need to order a copy of this rare gem] - Obomsawin, Alaniz Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance. NFB,1995.
- Borso, Phillip. The Grey Fox 1982.
Supplemental Material on Nationalism
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
Brodie, Janine. “Citizenship and Solidarity: Reflections on the Canadian Way.” Citizenship Studies 6.4 (2002): 377-394. (Saved as .pdf)
Charland, Maurice. “Technological Nationalism.” Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 10.1-2 (1986): 196-220.
Cormier, Jeffrey. The Canadianization Movement: Emergence, Survival, and
Success. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004.
Corse, Sarah M. Nationalism and Literature: the Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. (chapters 3 and 4)
Kirkconnell, Watson. Canadians All: A Primer of Canadian National Unity. Ottawa: Minister of National War Services, 1941.
Foster, Kate A. Our Canadian Mosaic. Toronto: Dominion Council of the Young Women’s Christian Association, 1926.
Litt, Paul. The Muses the Masses and the Massey Commission. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992.
Massey, Vincent. On Being Canadian. London: J. M. Dent, 1948.
Large, Michael. “The Corporate Identity of the Canadian Government.”Journal of Design History. 4.1 (1991): 31-42.
Resnick, Phillip. The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001.
Siltanen, Janet. "Paradise Paved? Reflections on the Fate of Social Citizenship in Canada." Citizenship Studies 6.4 (2002): 395-414.
Watson, J Wreford. “Canadian Regionalism in Life and Letters.” The Geographical Journal. 131.1. (1965): 21-33.
Screening portions of Haldane, Don Drylanders 1963.
Week 3 Madness and the National Subject
Sections of Madness and Civilization will be presented in relation to the Canadian National Imagery.
Screen Portions of these Films
- Cherry, Evelyn The Feeling of Rejection NFB.1947.
- Landreth, Chris. Ryan NFB. 2005.
Week 4 & 5 Critiques of and Laments for Cultural Nationalism
Bashevkin, Sylvia. True Patriot Love: The Politics of Canadian Nationalism. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1991.
Berger, Carl. The Sense of Power: Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1970.
Bodroghkozy, Aniko “As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other.” Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. Eds. Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc. Durham & London: Duke UP, 2002. 566-589.
Cook, Ramsey. “Cultural Nationalism in Canada.” Canadian Cultural Nationalism. Ed. Janice L. Murray. New York: New York UP, 1977.
Evans, Mitchell B., Stephen McBride, and John Shields. “Globalization and the Challenge to Canadian Democracy: National Governance under Threat.” Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism. Eds. Mike Burke, Colin Mooers, and John Shields.. Halifax: Fernwood, 2000. 80–97.
Frye, Northrop. Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1971.
Grant, George. Lament for a Nation. 1965. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens UP, 2005.
Hamlin, D. L. B. The Price of Being Canadian: 7th Winter Conference of the Canadian Institute for Public Affairs. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1961.
Laclau. Ernesto "Towards a Theory of Populism." Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory: Capitalism, Fascism, Populism. Ed. Laclau, Ernesto. London: Verso, 1977. 143-198.
Kuffert, L.B. A Great Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2003.
Murray, Janine, L. ed. Canadian Cultural Nationalism: The Fourth Lester B. Pearson Conference on the Canada-United States Relationship. New York: New York UP, 1977.
Smith, Anthony, D. Theories of Nationalism. 2nd ed. London: Duckworth, 1983.
Yael Tamir: Liberal Nationalism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.
Screening portions of Shebib, Don. Goin’ Down the Road. 1970. and Trailer Park Boys (2002-2008)
and Passchendaele (Gross, 2008)
Medley, Mark. “Paul Gross's Passchendaele heads to Kandahar, Afghanistan.”
National Post 30 Sept. 2008.<http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/09/30/
paul-gross-s-passchendaele-heads-to-kandahar-afghanistan.aspx>.
Week 6 Nationalism and Multiculturalism
Bannerji, Himani. The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender. Toronto: Canadian Scholars, 2000.
Bhaba, Homi, K. “DissemiNations: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation.” Nation and Narration. Ed. Homi K. Bhaba. New York: Routledge, 1990. 291-321.
Balibar, Etienne, and Immanuel Wallerstein. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. trans. Chris Turner. New York: Verso, 1991.
Gasche, R. Invention of Difference. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994.
Gunew, Sneja. Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms. London; New York: Routledge, 2004.
Hall, Stuart. “Introduction.” Who Needs ‘Identity’? Questions of Cultural
Identity. Eds. Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay. London: Sage, 1996. 1-17.
Mahtani, Minelle. “Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and ‘Mixed Race’ Identities.” Social Identities 8.1 (2002): 67-90.
Mitchell, Katharyne. “In Whose Interest?: Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada.” Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary. Eds. Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake. Durham; London: Duke UP, 1996. 219-51.
Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Taylor, Charles. Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition. Ed. and Intro Amy Gutmann. New Haven: Princeton UP, 1994.
Weisman, Adam Paul. "Reading Multiculturalism in the United States and Canada: The Anthological vs. the Cognitive." University of Toronto Quarterly 69 (2000): 689-715.
Fiction
Extracts from
Connor, Ralph. The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan. Toronto: Westminster, 1909.
Goto, Hiromi. Chorus of Mushrooms. Edmonton: NeWest, 1994.
Sharp, Edith Lambert. Nkwala. Boston and Toronto: Little Brown, 1958.
Fact
Mackey. Lloyd. “Bennett Project Provides Bridge for Jamaicans.” Canadian Christianty.com <http://www.canadianchristianity.com/bc/bccn/0708/o01bennett.html>.
“Niggertoe Mountain.” BCGNIS Query Results 15 July 2008. < http://www.elp.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=45296>.
“This Minstrel Was Too, Too Realistic.” Vernon News 19 Feb. 1953: 2.
Weeks 7 Performing Canada
Filewod, Alan. “Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined
Theatre.” Textual Studies in Canada. Eds. James Hoffman and Katherine
Sutherland. 15 (2002).
Glassberg, David. American Historical Pageantry: the Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina P, 1990.
Massey, Vincent. “The Prospects of Canadian Drama.” Canadian Theatre History. Ed. Don Rubin. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1996. 50-63.
Koch. Frederick. “Okanagan Folk Play.” Carolina Play-book 13.4 (1940): 154.
---. “Canadian Frontier Theatre.” Carolina Play-book 13.4 (1940): 16-170.
---.” Folk Drama Defined.” Carolina Play-book 12.3 (1939): 78.
Hendry, Tom. “The Masseys and the Masses.” Canadian Theatre History. Ed. Don Rubin. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1996. 189-192.
Pageant: From Wilderness to Wonderland. BC government. 1958 and 1971 editions.
Renyi, Elizabeth “Little Chipmunk and the Owl Women.” The Carolina Play-book 13.4 (1940): 155-158.
Sage, Walter “British Columbia Becomes Canadian. 1945.” Historical Essays on British Columbia. Eds. J. Friesen and H. K. Ralston. Toronto, 1980. 57-69.
Spillman, Lynn Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
“The Massey Commission 1949-1951.” Canadian Theatre History. Ed. Don Rubin. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1996. 153-193.
“Stratford Festival Debut.” CBC Archive. 26 Oct. 2006.<http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-68-178-991-11/on_this_day/arts_entertainment/stratford_festival_debut>.
Week 8 Performing the Canadian in Amateur Theatre in “Red” Face in the Okanagan of the 1950s
Battiste, Marie. “Unfolding the Lessons of Colonialization.” Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Peterborough: Broadview, 2004. 209-220.
Chrisjohn, Roland, and Sherri Young with Michael Maraun. The Circle Game: Shadows and Substances in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada. Penticton, BC: Theytus, 1997.
Francis, Daniel. The Imaginary Indian: the Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp, 1992.
Goldie, Terry. “Semiotic Controls: Native People in Canadian Literature in English.” Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Peterborough: Broadview, 2004. 191-203.
Historic Places and Aboriginal People - A Discussion Document. Canada: Canadian Heritage. 2002. <http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ieh-hpi/pubs/0-662-66980-0/index_e.cfm>.
“Indian Residential Schools in Canada - Historical Chronology.” Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada.9 July 2004. <http://www.irsr-rqpi.gc.ca/english/historical_events.html>.
Lawson, Alan. “Postcolonial Theory and the Settler’ Subject.” Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Peterborough: Broadview, 2004.151-64.
“Ode to Winniehaha White Chief Churchill.” The Penticton Herald. 8 Dec. 1954: 4.
“Queen Representative in Canada Given Warm Welcome by Citizens of this Area.” Kelowna Courier 14 May 1953: 1, 4.
Root, Deborah. "White Indians": Appropriation and the Politics of Display.” Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation. Rutgers UP, New Brunswick, NJ, 1997. 31-51.
Sinclair, Lister. The World of the Wonderful Dark. n.p.1958.Wardle, Dave. “Okanagan Enriched by Musical Heritage.” Penticton Museum. 5 July 2004. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/okanagan/musical.htm.
Internet Material
“Canada’s New Queen” CBC Archive. 26 Oct. 2006.<http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-69-70/life_society/new_queen/>. This archive provides a number of intriguing expressions of how Canadian nationalism works in conjunction with the new Queen.
Local Archival Material
Note: Script and related materials from two unpublished folk plays/operas performed in Kelowna and Penticton in the 1950s will be included in this unit: Easterbrook and Costley. Ashnola. Penticton 1955 and De Hart, F. Guy et al. Colonial Imperial. Kelowna 1953.
Week 9 Theatre: Performing the Canadian in Canada Council Supported Theatre and “Canonically Canadian” Drama in the Okanagan
Ringwood, Gwen Pharis. The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood. Ottawa: Borealism 1982.
Wagner, Anton. “Gwen Pharis Ringwood Rediscovered.” Canadian Theatre Review. 5 (1975): 66-123.
Note: If possible I would like to secure permission to use the unpublished script from Thomson Highway’s 2005 production in Kamloops. The play is set in Shushwap. I will need to speak with James Hoffman at Thompson River University who brought Highway and this play to Kamloops.
Week 10 Theatre: Performing the Canadian in the Okanagan in the 1960s
Carson, Neil. “George Ryga and the Lost Country.” Dramatists in Canada: Selected Essays. Ed. William New, Vancouver: U of British Columbia P, 1972.
Hoffman, James. The Ecstasy of Resistance: A Biography of George Ryga. Toronto: ECW, 1995.
Ryga, George. The George Ryga Papers. Eds. Juanita Walton and Sandra Mortensen, Calgary, U of Calgary P, 1995.
---. The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1990.
Ryga, George and Ann Kujundzic. Summerland. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1992.
Week 11 + 12 NFB and Okanagan film in the Canadian Canon
Grierson, John. “A Film Policy for Canada.” Documents in Canadian Film. Ed. Douglas Fetherling. Peterborough, ON: Broadview. 51-67.
Hays, Mathew. “Q + A. On Native Soil: Documentary Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin Explores Her Roots.” CBC 24 August 2006. 25 Oct. 2006. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/obomsawin.html .
Handling, Pier. “The Cinema We Need.” Documents in Canadian Film. Ed. Douglas Fetherling. Peterborough, ON: Broadview. 284-293.
Vitali, Valentina, and Paul Willemen. Theorizing National Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 2006.
Yacowar, Maurice. “The Canadian as Ethnic Minority.” Film Quarterly 40. 2. (1986-1987): 13-19.
Note: possibly explore the NFB’s Citizen Shift website to see how it negotiates citizenship in ways that cohere with Grierson’s legacy: http://citizen.nfb.ca/onf/info?aid=1521&eid=5523
Films
Currie’s Fido (2006) and Wilson’s My American Cousin (1985) to consider how the Okanagan serves as a retro sign of the 1950s in terms of deviance and nationhood.
Week 13 Television and the CBC
Eamon, Ross A. “Putting the ‘Public’ into Public Broadcasting.” Seeing Ourselves: Media Power and Policy in Canada. Eds. Helen Holmes and David Taras. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. 58-76.
Hackett, Robert, Richard Pinet, and Myles Ruggles. “From Audience-Commodity to Audience Community: Mass Media in B.C.” Seeing Ourselves: Media Power and Policy in Canada. Eds. Helen Holmes and David Taras. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. 10-20.
Berlin, Berry. The American Trojan Horse: U.S. Television Confronts Canadian Economic and Cultural Nationalism. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Miller, Mary Jane. Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952. Vancouver, UBC Press and CBC, 1987.
---.“The CBC and its Presentation of the Native Peoples of Canada in Television Drama.” Screening Culture: Constructing Image and Identity. Ed. Heather Norris Nicholson. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003. 59-75.
Palys, Ted. “Histories of Conveniences: Images of Aboriginal People in Film, Policy, and Research.” Screening Culture: Constructing Image and Identity. Ed. Heather Norris Nicholson. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003. 19-34.
Romanow, Paula ."’The Picture of Democracy We Are Seeking’: CBC Radio Forums and the Search for a Canadian Identity, 1930–1950.” Journal of Radio Studies 12.1 (2005): 104-119.
Smythe, Dallas Walker, 1907-1992. Royal Commission on Broadcasting: Canadian Television and Sound Radio Programmes. Ottawa, E. Cloutier, Queen's printer, 1957.
Teachman, G. The Portrayal of Canadian Cultural Diversity on English-language Canadian Network Television: a Content Analysis. Toronto : PEAC Developments, 1980.
The CBC’s archives have clips from various programs. Here is a very tentative list of intriguing materials from http://archives.cbc.ca/ that will help contextualize the work of Litt, Filewod, etc. I will draw on this archive throughout the course, but for this unit on the CBC, we will perform an active exploration of this site in reference to the institutional reproduction and dissemination of knowledge.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-68-1150/arts_entertainment/canadian_content/ CBC ruling the airwaves segment.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-73-1265/politics_economy/lester_b_pearson/ Pearson memorial
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-73-1181/politics_economy/federal_elections/ Campaigning for Canada
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-110-1263-7090/1940s/1948/clip1 Indian Conference on Radio
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-69-1462-9713/life_society/myths_and_legends/ Ogopogo feud between Kelowna and Vernon. 1956.
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