{"product_id":"9781554582303-weaving-a-canadian-allegory","title":"Weaving a Canadian Allegory","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnonymous Writing, Personal Reading\u003cbr\u003eLoretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The \u003cem\u003eReport of the Task Force on Canadian Unity\u003c\/em\u003e rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Loretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The \u003ci\u003eReport of the Task Force on Canadian Unity\u003c\/i\u003e rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada. The \u003ci\u003eReport\u003c\/i\u003e itself is the product of what she calls the \"\"federal writing machine\"\" which exists to continually rewrite and thus reinvent Canada. Czernis' contextual reading of the \u003ci\u003eReport\u003c\/i\u003e occurs on two levels: reading technically, she examines the \u003ci\u003eReport\u003c\/i\u003e's anonymous writing style that asks readers to imitate its own conclusions (be patriotic, buy a flag, shop at home). Gestural reading invites reading as performance. Canadians are invited to participate in reshaping Canada by reading Canada allegorically, as a social body, capable of changing its form. What a document may intend is not always the same as what is read into it. Mistakes can and do occur in the reading. Czernis suggests that these \"\"mistakes\"\" constitute a significant form of resistance to the anonymous writing machine. \u003ci\u003eWeaving a Canadian Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e will be of special interest to Canadianists, sociologists and to those involved in cultural, political and textual studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55892121452918,"sku":"9781554582303","price":31.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781554582303-weaving-a-canadian-allegory","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}