The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad

Migration and the impact that immigrants have on Canada is and always has been central to a robust understanding of Canadian identity. However, despite claims that the world needs more Canada, Canadians, their governments, and scholars pay much less attention to the estimated 3 million Canadian expatriates who live elsewhere. 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, professional development, and/or community engagement focuses directly on Canada? How does being abroad affect how we interpret Canada? In short, in what ways does externality affect how Canadian expat scholars intellectually approach, construct, and identify with Canada? This engaging volume is ideal for university students, scholars, government officials, and the general public.

Examines how Canada is interpreted and constructed by Canadian expatriate scholars Features chapters by Canadian expats combining theory and lived experience Expands conceptions of Canadian identity

Auteur

Christopher Kirkey is Director of the Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Quebec Studies at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, USA, and serves as President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS). He is a co-editor, with Michael K. Hawes and Andrew C. Holman, of Canada in 1968: A Year and Its Legacies (2021).

Richard Nimijean is a member of the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He is a co-editor, with David Carment, of Canada Among Nations 2020: Political Turmoil in a Tumultuous World (2021).

Contenu
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?.