Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women WritingIn Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future, McPherson explores the memory work, alternative historiographies, and feminist aesthetics by which women writers revisit the past and reimagine the future. Grounded within critical discourses across many discplines, McPherson's analysis engages contemporary discussions about autobiographical genres, post-modern historiographies, memoirs, and literary genealogies. |
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... d'une histoire qui échapperait au désir d'anéantissement. Une chronique de la vie quotidienne, peutêtre, d'une extrême simplicité, qui célébrerait la tendresse et la volonté de création. [What intelligence and what tenderness can we ...
... d'une histoire qui échapperait au désir d'anéantissement. Une chronique de la vie quotidienne, peutêtre, d'une extrême simplicité, qui célébrerait la tendresse et la volonté de création. [What intelligence and what tenderness can we ...
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... d'une imagination démente” [with the help of some documents and a wild imagination] ( MT 196). Even as they agreed to share resources, the historian and the novelist were wary of one another. Preferring “la passion du rêve au ...
... d'une imagination démente” [with the help of some documents and a wild imagination] ( MT 196). Even as they agreed to share resources, the historian and the novelist were wary of one another. Preferring “la passion du rêve au ...
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... repoussa Phipps à RivièreOuelle avec ses trois fils en 1691, mais j'ai perdu la trace de ses filles nées d'une Fille du Roy” [My first ancestor drove back Phipps at Rivière-Ouelle with his three sons in 1691, but I've lost track.
... repoussa Phipps à RivièreOuelle avec ses trois fils en 1691, mais j'ai perdu la trace de ses filles nées d'une Fille du Roy” [My first ancestor drove back Phipps at Rivière-Ouelle with his three sons in 1691, but I've lost track.
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Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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