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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... evokes “une solution de continuité, une rupture radicale dans l'enchaînement des siècles” [a solution of continuity, a radical rupture in the sequence of centuries]. 37 She calls for a demolition of “la séquence [patriarcale] pour ...
... evokes “une solution de continuité, une rupture radicale dans l'enchaînement des siècles” [a solution of continuity, a radical rupture in the sequence of centuries]. 37 She calls for a demolition of “la séquence [patriarcale] pour ...
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... evoked in this emblematic scene anticipates the exuberant plurivocality and dialogism of Marlatt's Ana Historic. Furthermore, in both Les Fous de Bassan and Ana Historic, women's telling of history is aimed precisely at absence and ...
... evoked in this emblematic scene anticipates the exuberant plurivocality and dialogism of Marlatt's Ana Historic. Furthermore, in both Les Fous de Bassan and Ana Historic, women's telling of history is aimed precisely at absence and ...
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... evoked as women's shared, private space in which something powerful, beautiful, and mysterious happens. Deeply moved by the events taking place in that room, Ana looks at the birthing woman supported by her women friends and knows “she ...
... evoked as women's shared, private space in which something powerful, beautiful, and mysterious happens. Deeply moved by the events taking place in that room, Ana looks at the birthing woman supported by her women friends and knows “she ...
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... evokes a “shocking” scene between the two women in a room in Vancouver's Gastown, she is recalling an earlier conversation between her and Annie about two different possible endings for Ana's story. In the scenario suggested by the ...
... evokes a “shocking” scene between the two women in a room in Vancouver's Gastown, she is recalling an earlier conversation between her and Annie about two different possible endings for Ana's story. In the scenario suggested by the ...
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... evoking the intimate encounter of women with women as the imagination of the future: we give place, giving words, giving birth, to each other – she and me. you. hot skin writing skin. fluid edge, wick, wick. she draws me out. you she ...
... evoking the intimate encounter of women with women as the imagination of the future: we give place, giving words, giving birth, to each other – she and me. you. hot skin writing skin. fluid edge, wick, wick. she draws me out. you she ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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