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Interpreting Canada: New Perspectives from Europe INTERPRETING CANADA: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM EUROPE INTERPRÉTER LE CANADA : NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES DU CÔTÉ DE l‘EuropE CANADIAN STUDIES IN EUROPE ÉTUDES CANADIENNES EN EUROPE VOLUME 10 canadian_studies_vol10.indd 1 29.5.2012 0:20:57 Published by / publié par the European Network for Canadian Studies / le Réseau européen d’études canadiennes (ENCS / RÉEC) in collaboration with Masaryk University, Brno 1st edition, 2012 Edited by Luigi Bruti-Liberati Selected proceedings of the NINETEENTH EUROPEAN SEMINAR FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN CANADIAN STUDIES Milan, Italy / 22-24 September 2010 This publication has been made possible with the aid of financial support from Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. © 2012, The European Network for Canadian Studies All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher and appropriate contributors. Printed and bound by Reprocentrum, a. s., Blansko Cover / Couverture : Downtown / Centre-ville, Toronto ISBN 978-80-210-51?? ISSN 1214-0562 canadian_studies_vol10.indd 2 29.5.2012 0:20:57 Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Balancing Cultures – Multicultural Canadian Children’s Literature / Grit Alter ........................... 7 Postmodernism in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers / Icíar Álvarez Pérez .............................. 25 « Le traitement social-policier de l’immigration vulnérable. L’exemple canadien face aux défis de l’actualité espagnole » /Julián Arribas Martínez .................................................. 35 Robert Kroetsch, from the Long Poem to the Sketches: For a Poetics of Process / Roberta Cadei ............................................................................................................... 49 Engineering Bodies: Cyborg Takeovers in Canadian Speculative Fictions / Alba De Béjar Muiños .................................................................................................... 63 L’américanité du Québec : histoire, mythe et littérature. Sur la route du roman de la route / Linda Fasano ................................................................................................................ 77 “Travel only when you must”: Remembering the Internment of German Merchant Seamen in Canada during World War II / Judith Kestler ............................................................ 97 Liquid Women in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Life before Man / Catrinela Andreea Lazar ................................................................................ 111 AlterNatives in Contemporary First Nations and Métis Narratives: preliminary considerations / Anna Mongibello ............................................................................................... 125 Margaret Atwood’s Multiple Subversions: The Question of Genre in Her Short Fiction / Emilie Péneau............................................................................................ 137 Accommodating diversity throughout the Constitution. The elasticity of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the framework of the constitutional adjudication and of the notwithstanding clause / Maria Rosaria Radiciotti ........................ 153 A comparative perspective on hate speech regulation: the emergence of the Canadian model / Irene Spigno .......................................................................................... 169 canadian_studies_vol10.indd 3 29.5.2012 0:20:57 Introduction This volume is a selection of the contributions to the 19th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies 2010 that took place in the Faculty of Linguistic and Cultural Mediation of the University of Milano, Italy, from the 22nd th volume to the 24 of September 2010. The Seminar was organized by the Italian Association of Canadian Studies with 10 the intent of promoting scholarly and social exchanges among young European Canadianists. The Seminar brought together 27 graduate researchers from Europe and 2 from Israel and Mexico to introduce and discuss their research findings on a wide range of topics relating to Canadian Studies such as linguistics, law, literature, history, women studies, cultural studies and immigration studies. The European Network of Canadian Studies is proud of the achievements reached in the last years by a new wave of European researchers in Canadian Studies. The papers collected in this volume are an excellent example of dynamism and seriousness of purpose by European graduate students who devote their research to Canada past and present. # 4 CANADIAN STUDIES IN EUROPE canadian_studies_vol10.indd 4 29.5.2012 0:20:57 Introduction Ce volume comprend une sélection des contributions du 19ième Séminaire européen d’étudiants diplômés en Etudes canadiennes 2010 qui s’est tenu à la Faculté de linguistique et de médiation culturelle de l’Université de Milan en Italie, du 22 au 24 septembre 2010. volume Le séminaire a été organisé par l’Association italienne des Etudes canadiennes ayant pour but de promouvoir des échanges scolaires et sociaux parmi de jeunes 10 Canadianistes européens. Le Séminaire a réuni vingt-sept universitaires diplômés de l’Europe et deux d’Israël et du Mexique pour introduire et discuter le fruit de leurs recherches dans une grande variété de sujets portant sur les Etudes canadiennes tels que linguistique, droit, littérature, histoire, études de femmes, études culturelles et études de l’immigration. Le Réseau européen des Etudes canadiennes est fier des résultats atteints dans ces dernières années par une nouvelle vague de chercheurs européens dans les Etudes canadiennes. Les articles réunis dans ce volume représentent un excellent exemple du dynamisme et du sérieux de la part des étudiants diplômés européens qui consacrent leur recherche au Canada du passé et du présent. # ÉTUDES CANADIENNES EN EUROPE 5 canadian_studies_vol10.indd 5 29.5.2012 0:20:57 canadian_studies_vol10.indd 6 29.5.2012 0:20:57 GRIT ALTER WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS -UNIVERSITY MU ENSTER, GERMANY Balancing Cultures – Multicultural Canadian volume Children’s Literature 10 Abstract This paper will provide an overview of the effect of the representation of multicultural children in literature for young readers in the US and Canada. Therefore, a look at a selection of secondary texts as well as the results of a number of surveys will serve as a background in front of which one title of the new Canadian book series “In the Same Boat” will be analyzed in detail. It will be shown that Hiromi Goto in writing water of Possibility meets the demands of the book series, creating authentic and fully developed characters and providing an enjoyable reading experience for all children, to a very high degree. Her main protagonist Sayuri invites the reader on an adven- turous journey through Living Earth, in which she has to rescue not only her brother but also her new friends. She is empowered by Japanese mythology as well as her newly gained self-esteem and respect for other beings, be they welcoming or threatening. Her journey provides her with the necessary balance to feel at home in the new environment in the Canadian prairies to which her family recently moved. Résumé Ce document donnera une vue globale sur les effets de la représentation des enfants pluricul- turels dans la littérature pour jeunes lecteurs aux États-Unis et au Canada. Pour ce faire le regard est posé d’abord sur un choix de textes secondaires – autant en théorie qu’en pratique – et sur les résultats de nombreuses recherches. Sur cette trame un livre de la nouvelle série “In the Same Boat” sera analysé en détail. Ce texte montre que Hiromi Goto satisfait à l’exigence des principes de la série dans son livre “Water of Possibility” parce qu’elle invente des figures authentiques et développées complètement. C’est pourquoi elle creé une expérience positive pendant la lecture pour les enfants de toutes cultures. Son personnage principal Sayuri invite le lecteur à un voyage aventureux à travers Living Earth. Pendant ce temps elle ne doit pas que sauver son frère, mais # ÉTUDES CANADIENNES EN EUROPE 7 canadian_studies_vol10.indd 7 29.5.2012 0:20:57 GRIT ALTER Balancing Cultures – Multicultural Canadian Children’s Literature aussi ses nouveaux amis et le pays Living Earth. Mais elle surmontera ce défi parce qu’elle est consolidée par la mythologie japonaise, la nouvelle assurance et le respect d’autres créatures, n’importe qu’elles soient accueillantes ou menaçantes. Le voyage lui donne l’équilibre essen- tiel pour enraciner dans le nouveau environnement, dans les prairies canadiennes où sa famille a déménagé récemment. Introduction volume 10 “The third way, which is the only one I could ever use myself, consists in writing a children’s story because a children’s story is the best art-form for something you have to say.” (C.S. Lewis 1980, 208) “A third child said she ‘drew her yellow [haired] … because she was good, so I wanted to make her pretty.’” (Yeoman 1999, 438) Above quotes draw the attention to an imbalance regarding the content and effect of children’s literature. On the one hand, Lewis establishes the children’s story is a piece of art that entails a high degree of expressiveness and therefore relevance; on the other there is a child who, from literary texts and the differing representation of children of
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