Symbols of Canadian IdentityFrom multiethnic estrangement to multicultural mosaic, this course will rhetorically interrogate images that reflect understandings of “Canadian identity.” How are constructions of the "Canadian" something that can be prided over, questioned with a settler imagination, and/or reimagined in a post-colonial context? The course will consider political cartoons and media artefacts that span Canadian history, with an emphasis on the last 50 years. What images represent "Canada?" Whose story did they reflect, mute, critique, or amplify? How do symbols of Canadian identity work?
Texts*main texts
Barthes, Roland. The Rhetoric of the Image, from Barthes, Roland, Image Music Text. London: Fontana, 1977. Covello, Steve. Visual Communication: A general education textbook for the study of visual rhetoric. Granite State College, 2019. Foss, Sonja. Rhetorical Criticism as the Asking of Questions. Communication Education, Vol. 38, July 1989. Elkins, James. The Concept of Visual Literacy and Its Limitations. From Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction. Taylor and Francis, 2013. Elkins, James. An Introduction to the Visual as Argument. From Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction. Taylor and Francis, 2013. Hariman, R., & Lucaites, J. L. The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship. University of Chicago press, 2016. Hariman, Robert & Lucaites, John Louis. Performing Civic Identity... Iwo Jima. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2007. McLeod, Scott. The Vocabulary of Comics, from Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York, HarperCollins, 2014. 
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