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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... past and present, between present and future, as these tensions are reflected upon and inscribed in late twentieth-century works by twelve women writers from Quebec and English Canada. The analysis focuses on the ways in which these ...
... past and present, between present and future, as these tensions are reflected upon and inscribed in late twentieth-century works by twelve women writers from Quebec and English Canada. The analysis focuses on the ways in which these ...
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... past in the present and for anticipatory traces of the present in the past. Using “archaeology” as a trope necessarily recalls Michel Foucault's conceptual and methodological use of the term. Indeed, while I am not employing the trope ...
... past in the present and for anticipatory traces of the present in the past. Using “archaeology” as a trope necessarily recalls Michel Foucault's conceptual and methodological use of the term. Indeed, while I am not employing the trope ...
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... past (although these certainly play a role in these writers' works), but on the return (in and of the narrative) to the past in order – through a kind of literary trompel'histoire – to live it differently, or at least, through the ...
... past (although these certainly play a role in these writers' works), but on the return (in and of the narrative) to the past in order – through a kind of literary trompel'histoire – to live it differently, or at least, through the ...
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... past, the present and the future.39 Her exhortation: “Parlons-nous de la mémoire du futur, de l'habileté à faire des plans, à se projeter en avant” [Let's talk to one another about the memory of the future, about the skill for making ...
... past, the present and the future.39 Her exhortation: “Parlons-nous de la mémoire du futur, de l'habileté à faire des plans, à se projeter en avant” [Let's talk to one another about the memory of the future, about the skill for making ...
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... past and present lives.” 64 In order to begin to accomplish this elaboration, Huffer draws on the work of Nicole Brossard (as I do in the last two chapters of this book for many of the same reasons). Describing Brossard's work as ...
... past and present lives.” 64 In order to begin to accomplish this elaboration, Huffer draws on the work of Nicole Brossard (as I do in the last two chapters of this book for many of the same reasons). Describing Brossard's work as ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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