Sites of similarity, sites of difference: constructing Canada in the graphic narrative

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dc.contributor.authorLeadbetter, Shandi
dc.contributor.supervisorMcClarty, Lianne
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-31T18:42:59Z
dc.date.available2011-05-31T18:42:59Z
dc.date.copyright2009en_US
dc.date.issued2011-05-31
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of History in Art
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Art History and Visual Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractCanadian superhero comic books represent a politically significant opportunity to study popular conceptions of national politics, cultures, and identities. Canadian superheroes are 'others' in the shadow their American neighbours, but embrace this 'Not-American otherness' as a central factor defining Canadian national identity. The diversity of Canadian multiculturalism collapses into a monolithic white/male/Anglophone identity produced in the tensions created by the binary relmionship between 'self-as-other' and 'American' articulated by the texts, creating one universalised and naturalised "Canadian" identity. This thesis seeks to politicise existing surveys that ignore the political implications of the comic book texts, and to critique other problematic methodologies in the comics discourse: tendencies towards canon-building, and resistance to interdisciplinary methodologies. I forward a social/cultural/political analysis that draws equally on my multiple backgrounds and subject positions as a university-educated art historian, a popular culture critic, a Canadian, and a (feminist) reader and fan of superhero comic books.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3332
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectgraphic novelsen_US
dc.subjectgroup identity -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectnational characteristicsen_US
dc.titleSites of similarity, sites of difference: constructing Canada in the graphic narrativeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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