Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia

by Patricia K. Wood

Book Overview

She argues that nationalism is not one idea but a "relationship of voices, speaking from varying levels of political and social power, and to varying audiences." The Italian understanding of what it means to belong to Canada does not require the abandonment of ethnic identity but instead demonstrates the ways in which layers of identity intersect. Wood introduces the more spatial concept of "relocation" and emphasizes the complex and negotiated nature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773523693
• ISBN13: 9780773523692
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 200 Pages