In the 1999 film, Fight Club, the disaffected protagonist, portrayed by Edward Norton, meets a charismatic soap salesman, portrayed by Brad Pitt. The pair bond over their shared enjoyment of violence, eventually founding the “Fight Club”, an underground fighting ring where its male members are invited to express their feelings of frustration and disillusionment […]
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No, Canada! Problematizing Canadian Patriotism in the Wake of Trump’s Threats
Our country has been under attack for several months. While this attack has not manifested as bombs and bloodshed, it has, nonetheless presented Canadians with an existential threat to their collective imaginations. A tide of hostile American political rhetoric has worked to construct a problematic caricature of Canada and its people. We are, apparently, a […]
