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Drawing upon recent anthropological scholarship for a general theory of production, exchange, and valuation, this essay seeks to understand cultural appropriation, in a consequential but not exclusive way, as an ambivalent process whereby the norms and practices of imperialist society may be challenged by modern writers whether of Native or non-Native heritage. The examples of Emily Cart, Marius Barbeau, and Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) here illuminate a basic set of relationships between modernism, imperialism, and nationalism.

Talks about the bad multiplicity in Canadian literature. Assumption in critical practice regarding Canadian literature; Definition of bad multiplicity; Analysis of the history of Canadian sociability.

Stephen Leacock's work, especially Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), continues to prompt contradictory conclusions about the political imagination expressed in his humorous fiction. Is it liberating or consolatory, subversive or conservative? This essay tries to resolve the question with a dialectical historicist reading of the ideology and logic of Leacock's style. The method is metacritical, aiming to provide a reconciling structure for the more positive claims resulting from nonhistoricist methods of reading Sunshine Sketches, along with the more negative ones resulting from methods addressed to the events and ideologies of Leacock's modernity and his analysis, as a political economist, of this modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the book `Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony,' by Linda Hutcheon. Transideological form of irony; Realist mythos of Hutcheon's study; Anti-foundationalist methodology.