Monday, January 30, 2006
Comic Books, Jeet Heer and the New Canada
:: Posted by max @ 1/30/2006 02:09:00 AM 
News Link Source: Imperial Oil Review
Journalist Robert Fulford profiles Toronto comics scholar Jeet Heer for the house organ of Imperial Oil.
Fulford, while generally clueless about comics and academia, does a succinct job of covering the biographical details and critical insights of Heer's life and work, making an attempt to place these in the context of a wider Canadian multiculturalism.
"His life and career embody two big changes on the Canadian landscape in recent times. The first is the appearance of intellectuals from non-European countries as cultural leaders, people like Neil Bissoondath, a Trinidadian Canadian who has published muchadmired books and now teaches creative writing at Laval University in Quebec City, and Irshad Manji, who grew up in Richmond, B.C. (because Idi Amin expelled her family from Uganda), and has now become famous around the world as an analyst of her religion, Islam. The second change is the emergence of popular culture, including comics, as a subject studied by intellectuals."
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