Red tiles, white mosaic : Indigeneity and the institutionalization of multiculturalism in Canada and Canadian literature—towards a literary and political history
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: English, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: McCormack, Brendan
issued: 2020-10-01T22:12:50Z
issued: 2020
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: “Red Tiles, White Mosaic” offers a literary and political history analyzing the settler-colonial processes by which the state-driven project of multiculturalism became Canada’s distinctive, even “indigenous” national feature by settling itself on Indigenous lands. I examine multiculturalism as a politics of colonial misrecognition whose strategies of managing diversity have excluded or reframed Indigenous political difference as “cultural” difference, obfuscating Indigenous nationhood and the colonial dispossession at the formation of the multicultural nation-state. In Part 1, “Politics and Public Policy,” I historicize the “mosaic” and the development of Canadian multicultural nationalism in literary and political discourse since the nineteenth century, showing how official multiculturalism materialized as an extension of the colonial project of nation-building. Chapter 1 offers a novel and sustained historical critique of multiculturalism’s federal institutionalization since 1971 through the spheres of public policy, law, and political philosophy, mapping the strategies of Indigenous appropriation, exclusion, and containment in the architecture of liberal multiculturalism. Chapter 2 explores the ambivalent material effects of early ethnicity-oriented multicultural policy on publishing in Indigenous newsletters in the 1970s, examining the poetry in publications of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs as a case study. In Part 2, “Political Economy, Pedagogy, and Representation,” I study how the policy and ideology of multiculturalism and the state’s multicultural patronage of arts has transmuted within the Canadian literary field and inflected the reception and construction of Indigenous writing as “multicultural” literature, focusing primarily on the institution of the literary anthology. In Chapter 3, I historicize and theorize the anthology’s significance to multiculturalism’s growing visibility and institutionalization in Canadian literary studies in the 1970s and 1980…
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note: RED TILES, WHITE MOSAIC: INDIGENEITY AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MULTICULTURALISM IN CANADA AND CANADIAN LITERATURE— TOWARDS A LITERARY AND POLITICAL HISTORY by Brendan McCormack B.A., University of Victoria, 2008 M.A., Carleton University, 2010 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (English) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) September 2020 © Brendan McCormack, 2020 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Red Tiles, White Mosaic: Indigeneity and the Institutionalization of Multiculturalism in Canada and Canadian Literature—Towards a Literary and Political History submitted by Brendan McCormack in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Examining Committee: Laura Moss, Professor, English Language and Literatures, UBC Supervisor Margery Fee, Professor Emerita, English Language and Literatures, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Daniel Heath Justice, Professor, First Nations and Indigenous Studies and English, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Christopher Lee, Associate Professor, English Language and Literatures, UBC University Examiner Coll Thrush, Professor, History, UBC University Examiner Pauline Wakeham, Associate Professor, English, Western University External Examiner iii Abstract “Red Tiles, White Mosaic” offers a literary and political history analyzing the settler-colonial processes by which the state-driven project of multiculturalism became Canada’s distinctive, even “indigenous” national feature by settling itself on Indigenous lands. I examine multiculturalism as a politics of colonial misrecognition whose strategies of managing diversity have excluded or reframed Indigenous political difference as “cultural” difference, obfuscating Indigenous nationhood…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2020-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0394586
language: eng
degree discipline: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/76237