{"product_id":"weaving-a-canadian-allegory","title":"Weaving a Canadian Allegory","description":"\u003cp\u003e Loretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The \u003ci\u003eReport of the Task Force on Canadian Unity\u003c\/i\u003e rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada. The \u003ci\u003eReport\u003c\/i\u003e itself is the product of what she calls the \"\"federal writing machine\"\" which exists to continually rewrite and thus reinvent Canada. Czernis' contextual reading of the \u003ci\u003eReport\u003c\/i\u003e occurs on two levels: reading technically, she examines the \u003ci\u003eReport\u003c\/i\u003e's anonymous writing style that asks readers to imitate its own conclusions (be patriotic, buy a flag, shop at home). Gestural reading invites reading as performance. Canadians are invited to participate in reshaping Canada by reading Canada allegorically, as a social body, capable of changing its form. What a document may intend is not always the same as what is read into it. Mistakes can and do occur in the reading. Czernis suggests that these \"\"mistakes\"\" constitute a significant form of resistance to the anonymous writing machine. \u003ci\u003eWeaving a Canadian Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e will be of special interest to Canadianists, sociologists and to those involved in cultural, political and textual studies. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248975663448,"sku":"9781554582303","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781554582303_c1a75cbc-2aa3-4936-b36c-f6b050d22571.jpg?v=1777863653","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/weaving-a-canadian-allegory","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}