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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... Lesbian Postmodern: “Even as the multiplication of categories beyond the singularity of gender has made possible a rethinking of the complexities of women's varied social positioning, their conceptualization as discrete categories works ...
... Lesbian Postmodern: “Even as the multiplication of categories beyond the singularity of gender has made possible a rethinking of the complexities of women's varied social positioning, their conceptualization as discrete categories works ...
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... Lesbian Postmodern offer a number of differing and provocative ways of mapping and of challenging the mapping of a terrain that might cover “lesbian,” “feminist,” and “postmodern.” Kathleen Martindale, in Un/popular Culture: Lesbian ...
... Lesbian Postmodern offer a number of differing and provocative ways of mapping and of challenging the mapping of a terrain that might cover “lesbian,” “feminist,” and “postmodern.” Kathleen Martindale, in Un/popular Culture: Lesbian ...
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... lesbian feminist theorists have insisted in one way or another, the perspective of lesbian desire is not a variation on or an addendum to the familiar patriarchal, heterosexual script; it tells a completely different story, one that ...
... lesbian feminist theorists have insisted in one way or another, the perspective of lesbian desire is not a variation on or an addendum to the familiar patriarchal, heterosexual script; it tells a completely different story, one that ...
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... lesbian relationship between Ana and Birdie, Annie protested: “this is a monstrous leap of imagination” ( AH 135). But Annie appears to have heeded Zoe's response – “so be monstrous then” – as the narrative takes precisely that ...
... lesbian relationship between Ana and Birdie, Annie protested: “this is a monstrous leap of imagination” ( AH 135). But Annie appears to have heeded Zoe's response – “so be monstrous then” – as the narrative takes precisely that ...
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... . In answer to the text's initial question – “who's there?” – she now calls herself Annie Torrent, naming and claiming her independence and her passion. Thus framed and unframed, the scene of lesbian lovemaking in the novel's final.
... . In answer to the text's initial question – “who's there?” – she now calls herself Annie Torrent, naming and claiming her independence and her passion. Thus framed and unframed, the scene of lesbian lovemaking in the novel's final.
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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