Over the last decades, poutine has increasingly been represented as the national dish of Canada in public discourse across the country, which has been considered by many a Quebecer as a form of appropriation or Canadianization of Quebecois culture. This paper aims to assess how poutine has been discursively construed as a marker of national identity by applying the framework of banal nationalism theorized by Ichijo and Ranta (2016) to a selection of tweets in English collected in November 2019, where social media users discuss poutine and Canadianness. The texts are analyzed from a top-down, bottom-up and global perspective so as to demonstrate how the online debate over poutine displays the tensions within the discourse of Canadian nationhood since Anglophone Canada and Francophone Quebec have historically interpreted and appropriated the term in different ways.
"Poutine is not Canadian": Food and National Identity in Canada
Casagranda, Mirko
2022-01-01
Abstract
Over the last decades, poutine has increasingly been represented as the national dish of Canada in public discourse across the country, which has been considered by many a Quebecer as a form of appropriation or Canadianization of Quebecois culture. This paper aims to assess how poutine has been discursively construed as a marker of national identity by applying the framework of banal nationalism theorized by Ichijo and Ranta (2016) to a selection of tweets in English collected in November 2019, where social media users discuss poutine and Canadianness. The texts are analyzed from a top-down, bottom-up and global perspective so as to demonstrate how the online debate over poutine displays the tensions within the discourse of Canadian nationhood since Anglophone Canada and Francophone Quebec have historically interpreted and appropriated the term in different ways.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
