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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... mother's), not of my daughter's generation. Furthermore, the works by these women that I analyse in the present study (those “recent generations” of my title) were written when the authors were in their forties and fifties, for the most ...
... mother's), not of my daughter's generation. Furthermore, the works by these women that I analyse in the present study (those “recent generations” of my title) were written when the authors were in their forties and fifties, for the most ...
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... 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 the narrator's interpretation, not the historian's. Indeed, as historian and ...
... 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 the narrator's interpretation, not the historian's. Indeed, as historian and ...
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... mother's suicide. It is the mother's final and definitive absence that has awakened the narrator's need to go searching for the missing, to speak into the darkness and emptiness in the hope of hearing an answering voice. The absent mother ...
... mother's suicide. It is the mother's final and definitive absence that has awakened the narrator's need to go searching for the missing, to speak into the darkness and emptiness in the hope of hearing an answering voice. The absent mother ...
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... mothers, the inheritance of the mothers. you taught me a lot. you taught me the uneasy hole in myself and how to cover it ... mother's shame for “the body that betrays the self. bleeding, leaking, growing lumps, getting pregnant, having ...
... mothers, the inheritance of the mothers. you taught me a lot. you taught me the uneasy hole in myself and how to cover it ... mother's shame for “the body that betrays the self. bleeding, leaking, growing lumps, getting pregnant, having ...
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... mother, and by extension to all of the mothers lost in and to history. But one of the other missing persons that Ana Historic unearths is the lesbian. It is Annie's encounter with Zoe, “this stranger [she] happen[s] to meet in the ...
... mother, and by extension to all of the mothers lost in and to history. But one of the other missing persons that Ana Historic unearths is the lesbian. It is Annie's encounter with Zoe, “this stranger [she] happen[s] to meet in the ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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