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, whose life and death shaped this project profoundly; my father and stepmother, who are showing me how to live, and age, with humanity and grace; my children who keep me believing in the future (special thanks to Andrés, who has ...
... mother, whose life and death shaped this project profoundly; my father and stepmother, who are showing me how to live, and age, with humanity and grace; my children who keep me believing in the future (special thanks to Andrés, who has ...
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... mother's death: “c'est toute l'écriture qui s'est refusée” [It is all writing that refused itself] (MMG 52). And in Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss, Betsy Warlandinscribes the following words in the middle of a blank page ...
... mother's death: “c'est toute l'écriture qui s'est refusée” [It is all writing that refused itself] (MMG 52). And in Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss, Betsy Warlandinscribes the following words in the middle of a blank page ...
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... death] ( DS 150). Describing her mother's slow and painful dying, for instance, she first speaks and then interrupts herself with a question: L'agonie est toujours pénible, mais la lucidité, jusqu'à la fin conservée, et la douleur ...
... death] ( DS 150). Describing her mother's slow and painful dying, for instance, she first speaks and then interrupts herself with a question: L'agonie est toujours pénible, mais la lucidité, jusqu'à la fin conservée, et la douleur ...
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Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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