The Canadian mind : essays on writers and thinkers

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Lamey, Andy, author

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""Can we learn anything by examining a group of writers and thinkers who have nothing in common save a connection to Canada? I believe we can." In this bracing series of essays, philosopher and jou...

""Can we learn anything by examining a group of writers and thinkers who have nothing in common save a connection to Canada? I believe we can." In this bracing series of essays, philosopher and journalist Andy Lamey offers fresh and probing readings of some of Canada's most prominent literary icons and intellectuals--Margaret Atwood, John Metcalf, Joseph Boyden, Dany Laferriere, Mavis Gallant, Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, Conrad Black, and more. Leaping from the debates of literary nationalism in the 1960s through the rise of Quebec nationalism to contemporary debates about identity, cultural appropriation, immigration and citizenship, he gores sacred cows, resurrects forgotten genius, and arrives at a bracing new idea of what it means to read and write about Canada."--

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