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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... narrator is engaged in uncovering the story of a woman from the past. Digging into that past in search of the untold ... narrators can slip between the sheets.
... narrator is engaged in uncovering the story of a woman from the past. Digging into that past in search of the untold ... narrators can slip between the sheets.
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... narrator makes explicit use of language and imagery that liken the writing process to something that occurs in a bed (intimate union, conception, birth): “Tout a commencé le jour où je me suis glissée entredraps et cahier, la bouche ...
... narrator makes explicit use of language and imagery that liken the writing process to something that occurs in a bed (intimate union, conception, birth): “Tout a commencé le jour où je me suis glissée entredraps et cahier, la bouche ...
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... narrator's reconstructive project. Having been totally absorbed in both uncovering and imagining her eighteenth-century protagonist's story, the narrator determines that the time has come to “faire la connaissance avec le père de ...
... narrator's reconstructive project. Having been totally absorbed in both uncovering and imagining her eighteenth-century protagonist's story, the narrator determines that the time has come to “faire la connaissance avec le père de ...
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... narrator shares his distress over what she understands to be the systematic erasure of women from official histories ... narrator's interpretation, not the historian's. Indeed, as historian and novelist together examine a photograph of ...
... narrator shares his distress over what she understands to be the systematic erasure of women from official histories ... narrator's interpretation, not the historian's. Indeed, as historian and novelist together examine a photograph of ...
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... narrator's practice was to let her pen move from fantasy to fantasy “aidé de quelques documents et d'une imagination démente” [with the help of some documents and a wild imagination] ( MT 196). Even as they agreed to share resources ...
... narrator's practice was to let her pen move from fantasy to fantasy “aidé de quelques documents et d'une imagination démente” [with the help of some documents and a wild imagination] ( MT 196). Even as they agreed to share resources ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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