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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... narrative) to the past in order – through a kind of literary trompel'histoire – to live it differently, or at least, through the creative workings of memory, to translate it forward into a different present with the possibility of ...
... narrative) to the past in order – through a kind of literary trompel'histoire – to live it differently, or at least, through the creative workings of memory, to translate it forward into a different present with the possibility of ...
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... narrative for any kind of feminist forward-looking project? Is it inevitable that in our “postmodern condition” we lose the ability to envision a coherent future? If so, what kind of future can possibly be envisioned? Do feminist ...
... narrative for any kind of feminist forward-looking project? Is it inevitable that in our “postmodern condition” we lose the ability to envision a coherent future? If so, what kind of future can possibly be envisioned? Do feminist ...
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... narrative” – she nevertheless insists: “we cannot deal with these political concerns by rejecting the ethical impulse of utopia.” 58 Without discounting the risks, Benhabib affirms the importance of being able to formulate “a feminist ...
... narrative” – she nevertheless insists: “we cannot deal with these political concerns by rejecting the ethical impulse of utopia.” 58 Without discounting the risks, Benhabib affirms the importance of being able to formulate “a feminist ...
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... narrative in each of these works gives voice to a historical woman and lets her tell her own story in ways she could not or did not in the documented past. The inscribed voice is both “remembered” and imagined, as Atwood clearly ...
... narrative in each of these works gives voice to a historical woman and lets her tell her own story in ways she could not or did not in the documented past. The inscribed voice is both “remembered” and imagined, as Atwood clearly ...
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... narrative approach with a gendered angle of reflection is perhaps best represented by a much commented scene in Anne Hébert's Les Fous de Bassan. The Pastor sets out to represent his history and genealogy through a series of black and ...
... narrative approach with a gendered angle of reflection is perhaps best represented by a much commented scene in Anne Hébert's Les Fous de Bassan. The Pastor sets out to represent his history and genealogy through a series of black and ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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