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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... remembering, I move in the third chapter into the apocalyptic present of MarieClaire Blais's Visions d'Anna, L'Ange de la solitude, Soifs, Dans la foudre et la lumière, and Augustino et le choeur de la destruction. Here, I consider ...
... remembering, I move in the third chapter into the apocalyptic present of MarieClaire Blais's Visions d'Anna, L'Ange de la solitude, Soifs, Dans la foudre et la lumière, and Augustino et le choeur de la destruction. Here, I consider ...
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... remembering (being) in the 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 ...
... remembering (being) in the 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 ...
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... remember –” ( AH 11). But memory reaches back beyond the missing mother to earlier generations of women whose stories were untold. History is the ongoing story of missing mothers. And so memory, desire, and imagination weave together ...
... remember –” ( AH 11). But memory reaches back beyond the missing mother to earlier generations of women whose stories were untold. History is the ongoing story of missing mothers. And so memory, desire, and imagination weave together ...
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... remember and recount, in order to carry our losses forward in memory. These fictions suggest that telling the story of what is lost or missing is integral to the survival process, a crucial way of making connections that help us to ...
... remember and recount, in order to carry our losses forward in memory. These fictions suggest that telling the story of what is lost or missing is integral to the survival process, a crucial way of making connections that help us to ...
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Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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