Hip and Trivial: Youth Culture, Book Publishing and the Greying of Canadian Nationalism Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Background	17
	The Canadian Lit Boom	17
	Read Canadian	23
	Canada's Literary Culture	30
2	Publishing in Canada	39
	The Publishing Recession of the 1990s	39
	Globalization	45
	Publishing Succession	52
3	Youth Culture in Canada	59
	Demographics: A Widening Generation Gap?	59
	The Economic Condition of Canadian Youth	63
	The Cultural Condition of Canadian Youth	70
4	Media/Literacy	85
	Alarms about Mass Media	85
	Alarms about Illiteracy	99
	The International Adult Literacy Survey	104
5	Reading Youth	119
	Reading to Children	119
	This Just In: Youth Do Read	124
	Youth and the Canadian Canon	143
6	Marketing to Youth	157
	Raising Up, Dumbing Down	157
	Innovations	171
7	Notes from the Underground	181
	Zine Culture	181
	The Role of the Independent Presses	190
	Conclusion	211
	Notes	219
	Bibliography	243
	Index	253