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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... Preface Introduction Surviving the Century 1 The Language of Grief 2 Memory Works 3 Precarious Thresholds 4 Thinking the Future 5 Today and Tomorrow Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments It has been nearly ten years since I first.
... Preface Introduction Surviving the Century 1 The Language of Grief 2 Memory Works 3 Precarious Thresholds 4 Thinking the Future 5 Today and Tomorrow Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments It has been nearly ten years since I first.
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... Languages at the University of Oregon, especially Barbara Altmann and Evlyn Gould, and to the many graduate students with whom I have had the pleasure of working on some of these texts. My advisees Karen Almquist and Elena Villa deserve ...
... Languages at the University of Oregon, especially Barbara Altmann and Evlyn Gould, and to the many graduate students with whom I have had the pleasure of working on some of these texts. My advisees Karen Almquist and Elena Villa deserve ...
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... language of grief in Madeleine Gagnon's Le Deuil du soleil and Le Vent majeur, Diane-Monique Daviau's Ma Mère et Gainsbourg, Betsy Warland's Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss, and Geneviève Amyot's Je t'écrirai encore ...
... language of grief in Madeleine Gagnon's Le Deuil du soleil and Le Vent majeur, Diane-Monique Daviau's Ma Mère et Gainsbourg, Betsy Warland's Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss, and Geneviève Amyot's Je t'écrirai encore ...
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... , considers the reworkings of myth in six historiographic novels from both English-speaking Canada and Quebec, with close analysis of the French texts in their original language. It is, of course, important to recall that.
... , considers the reworkings of myth in six historiographic novels from both English-speaking Canada and Quebec, with close analysis of the French texts in their original language. It is, of course, important to recall that.
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Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing Karen McPherson. original language. It is, of course, important to recall that the work of many feminist writers in Canada has always constituted something of an exception to this general rule ...
Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing Karen McPherson. original language. It is, of course, important to recall that the work of many feminist writers in Canada has always constituted something of an exception to this general rule ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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