Alan Filewod. Performing Canada: the Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre

Alan Filewod. Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre. Textual Studies in Canada. Kamloops, BC: University corporation of the Cariboo Print Services, 2002 $1200 (Canadian).

Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre is a series of five reach forthed and disparate essays contextualized through an introduction and conclusion that enact Filewod's critical preoccupations. In his typically iconoclastic turn of expression he challenges the pervasive critical interpretation of the "development" of Canadian drama as a seamless narrative accompanying the political and cultural expansion of the country. Instead of an historical overview, Filewod juxtaposes radically different "case studies," affording