{"product_id":"9781554582303","title":"Weaving a Canadian Allegory: Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003eLoretta 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052346786032,"sku":"9781554582303","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554582303_p0.jpg?v=1763752420","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554582303","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}