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History Post-confederation (1867-)

Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War

edited by Richard Cavell

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2004
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802085009
    Publish Date
    May 2004
    List Price
    $45.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802036766
    Publish Date
    Jun 2004
    List Price
    $84.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442676831
    Publish Date
    Jun 2004
    List Price
    $84.00

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The essays in Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War present a Cold War different in many respects from the familiar one of anti-communist hysteria. In Canada, the Cold War raised issues of national self-representation that went beyond international political tensions related to capitalistic versus communistic regimes. If the discourse of the Cold War in Canada was anti-communist, it was also anti-American in many ways. Drawing on a number of disciplinary approaches and examining what Michel Foucault called the 'discursive' practices of the period, the contributors examine how, in the Cold War, the personal became the political through the state's attempt to regulate sexuality – in pulp fiction, in film, and in public spaces.

A major theme emerging from Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War is that many issues associated with the Cold War in Canada actually preceded World War II and continue to haunt us today. This has become particularly apparent after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, when politicians began employing the rhetoric of the 'War on Terror' and invoking issues of border security, immigration and refugee quotas, and 'harmonization' of policies.

About the author

RICHARD CAVELL. Professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia. Expertise in Canadian cultural studies and cultural memory, Marshall McLuhan, and media theory, and a published playwright.

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