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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... reader of early drafts of chapter 2. Neil Blackadder gave valuable research assistance in the early stages and Christina Lux provided skilled proofing and formatting of later drafts. Special thanks to Alice Parker for her generous and ...
... reader of early drafts of chapter 2. Neil Blackadder gave valuable research assistance in the early stages and Christina Lux provided skilled proofing and formatting of later drafts. Special thanks to Alice Parker for her generous and ...
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... reader of texts and contexts. I have organized this book around a series of “digs” into the different ways in which past, present, and future are connected and interpreted in the novels I am analysing. I begin in my Introduction by ...
... reader of texts and contexts. I have organized this book around a series of “digs” into the different ways in which past, present, and future are connected and interpreted in the novels I am analysing. I begin in my Introduction by ...
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... reading Quebec and English-Canadian women writers together: during the 1980s important feminist encounters took place between anglophone and francophone Canadian women scholars and authors, and a number of seminal bilingual and/or cross ...
... reading Quebec and English-Canadian women writers together: during the 1980s important feminist encounters took place between anglophone and francophone Canadian women scholars and authors, and a number of seminal bilingual and/or cross ...
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... readings of the literary works that are the focus of the present study, I strive to show how these women authors, writing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, speak to our present as they offer ways of breaking cycles of damage ...
... readings of the literary works that are the focus of the present study, I strive to show how these women authors, writing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, speak to our present as they offer ways of breaking cycles of damage ...
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... reading of Theodor Adorno makes clear, other temporal manipulations may be brought to bear on the catastrophe. For Said, approaches such as Adorno's hint at the possibility of “ending and surviving together.” 28 This possibility resides ...
... reading of Theodor Adorno makes clear, other temporal manipulations may be brought to bear on the catastrophe. For Said, approaches such as Adorno's hint at the possibility of “ending and surviving together.” 28 This possibility resides ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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