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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... femmes ... nous devions nous lever et courir interroger les signes ... Il me fallait toucher les Tables de la Loi qui m'avaient prise aux mots. Il me fallait inventorier leurs règles, exorciser leurs rumeurs. À l'aube, je m'aventurai ...
... femmes ... nous devions nous lever et courir interroger les signes ... Il me fallait toucher les Tables de la Loi qui m'avaient prise aux mots. Il me fallait inventorier leurs règles, exorciser leurs rumeurs. À l'aube, je m'aventurai ...
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... femme, toutes les femmes, menace les assises de ce monde parce que je suis fabulée comme étant la terre et maintenant la terre tremble. [This subversion, this total upheaval provoked by me, the Other woman, all women, threatens the ...
... femme, toutes les femmes, menace les assises de ce monde parce que je suis fabulée comme étant la terre et maintenant la terre tremble. [This subversion, this total upheaval provoked by me, the Other woman, all women, threatens the ...
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... femme de rêve n'écrit que pour ses tiroirs” [I know. They also burned pages of my mother's diary, my grandmother's, the journals of many of my foremothers. The woman of dreams only writes for her desk drawers] ( MT 243–4). But this is ...
... femme de rêve n'écrit que pour ses tiroirs” [I know. They also burned pages of my mother's diary, my grandmother's, the journals of many of my foremothers. The woman of dreams only writes for her desk drawers] ( MT 243–4). But this is ...
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... femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles.82 Their project involved challenging the very definition of “history”: “None of us was willing to let the history of men and a few illustrious women be passed off as the collective history of a ...
... femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles.82 Their project involved challenging the very definition of “history”: “None of us was willing to let the history of men and a few illustrious women be passed off as the collective history of a ...
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... évidence qui me la rend proche. Le bureau de poste, le courrier, la cuisine, la table, le lit. Je connais cette géographie intime des femmes. Cet envers de l'histoire officielle où s'affichent des dates, des guerres, des trafics.
... évidence qui me la rend proche. Le bureau de poste, le courrier, la cuisine, la table, le lit. Je connais cette géographie intime des femmes. Cet envers de l'histoire officielle où s'affichent des dates, des guerres, des trafics.
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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