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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... relationship of feminism to postmodernism. The overlapping preoccupations of these two contemporary critical approaches are evident, as we have already seen, in the way their attention is drawn to “the end of the world.” In the ...
... relationship of feminism to postmodernism. The overlapping preoccupations of these two contemporary critical approaches are evident, as we have already seen, in the way their attention is drawn to “the end of the world.” In the ...
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... relationship between philosophy and social criticism to develop paradigms of criticism without philosophy.” 48 But they then go on to note the two perspectives' “complementary strengths and weaknesses”: “Postmodernists offer ...
... relationship between philosophy and social criticism to develop paradigms of criticism without philosophy.” 48 But they then go on to note the two perspectives' “complementary strengths and weaknesses”: “Postmodernists offer ...
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... relationship between history and fiction. There are times in our experience when “memory, history, and story all intersect” and at such times, Atwood noted, “it would take only one step more to bring all of them into the realm of ...
... relationship between history and fiction. There are times in our experience when “memory, history, and story all intersect” and at such times, Atwood noted, “it would take only one step more to bring all of them into the realm of ...
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... relationship between Ana and Birdie, Annie protested: “this is a monstrous leap of imagination” ( AH 135). But Annie appears to have heeded Zoe's response – “so be monstrous then” – as the narrative takes precisely that monstrous leap ...
... relationship between Ana and Birdie, Annie protested: “this is a monstrous leap of imagination” ( AH 135). But Annie appears to have heeded Zoe's response – “so be monstrous then” – as the narrative takes precisely that monstrous leap ...
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... relationship between grieving and writing. Here she describes her writing project as imposed and directed by death itself: “Je l'écoute [la mort] et la regarde, et dois écrire ce qu'elle me dicte” [I listen to it [death] and watch it ...
... relationship between grieving and writing. Here she describes her writing project as imposed and directed by death itself: “Je l'écoute [la mort] et la regarde, et dois écrire ce qu'elle me dicte” [I listen to it [death] and watch it ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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