The Making of Our Home and Native Land: Textbooks, Racialized Deictic Nationalism and the Creation of the National We

This thesis project explores the ways that we/us/our, they/them, you/your and other grammars/pronouns position readers in relation to a nationalizing we. Building on the work of Michael Billig and his articulation of a theory of banal nationalism, I argue that curricular materials, authorized grade...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Bryan
Other Authors: Stanley, Timothy
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32334
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-4310