This thesis begins by examining the factors that have resulted in the dependent nature of Canada's political and economic structure, and proceeds to examine how this has contributed to the cultural amorphousness of English Canadian identity. The hegemonic authority of American and trans-national interests, established and maintained in the cultural sphere through the extensive monopoly of the distribution of cultural and media products, perpetuates the amorphousness of English Canadian culture through the appropriation of Canadian space by the international image industry. Such categorization of Canadian space reflects and perpetuates the imaginary representation of Canada within the dominant ideology as an indistinct and amorphous entity, and comes to usurp the materiality that constructs the lived identities of English Canadians.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2197 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | McIntosh, Andrew |
| Contributors | Negra, Diane, Kumar, Shanti, Hoerschelmann, Olaf |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, McIntosh, Andrew, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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