Download or read book Creative Subversions written by Margot Francis and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Creative Subversions explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through iconic images of Canadian identity -- and the contradictory and contested meanings they evoke. These benign, even kitschy, images, she argues, are haunted by ideas aboutrace, masculinity, and sexuality that circulated during the formative years of Anglo-Canadian nationhood.