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Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century

by John Ralston Saul
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Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century
Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century

Sharp rethink of Canada's fractured identity

This is a thoughtful, provocative read for anyone curious about what really holds Canada together. Saul challenges the usual English-French, east-west, Native-settler binaries and makes the country feel more complex, more uneasy, and more interesting. If you like big-picture political writing that questions national myths and gives you fresh language for debates you thought you knew, this one can feel surprisingly clarifying.

  • Gordon Montador Award (1998)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century

by John Ralston Saul
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ISBN: 9780140259889
Authors: John Ralston Saul
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Date of Publication: 1998-10-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Politics, Philosophy
Related Topics: History, Political Science, Sociology, Politics, Society, Government
Goodreads rating: 3.73
(rated by 103 readers)

Description

In Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye from a reinterpretation of the Western world to an examination of Canada itself. Caught up in political, economic, and social crises, Canada flounders, unable to solve or even identify its problems. Canada is confronted with differences—whether we are English or French; Native or European; early immigrants or newly arrived; from the East or from the West. Or we bow to ideologies and deny all differences in the name of nationalism, unity, or equality. In a startling exercise in reorientation, John Ralston Saul makes sense of Canadian myths—real, false, denied—and reconciles them with the reality of today’s politics, culture, and economics.
 

Sharp rethink of Canada's fractured identity

This is a thoughtful, provocative read for anyone curious about what really holds Canada together. Saul challenges the usual English-French, east-west, Native-settler binaries and makes the country feel more complex, more uneasy, and more interesting. If you like big-picture political writing that questions national myths and gives you fresh language for debates you thought you knew, this one can feel surprisingly clarifying.

  • Gordon Montador Award (1998)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.