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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... scene in Anne Hébert's Les Fous de Bassan. The Pastor sets out to represent his history and genealogy through a series of black and white portraits of his forebears, and commissions his two female cousins to paint the women's side of ...
... scene in Anne Hébert's Les Fous de Bassan. The Pastor sets out to represent his history and genealogy through a series of black and white portraits of his forebears, and commissions his two female cousins to paint the women's side of ...
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... scene of the suppressed, the taboo, the uncontainable and uncontrollable.74 The dynamic and relational nature of women's history evoked in this emblematic scene anticipates the exuberant plurivocality and dialogism of Marlatt's Ana ...
... scene of the suppressed, the taboo, the uncontainable and uncontrollable.74 The dynamic and relational nature of women's history evoked in this emblematic scene anticipates the exuberant plurivocality and dialogism of Marlatt's Ana ...
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... scene in La Maison Trestler stages an encounter between patriarchal historiographic tradition and a female narrator's reconstructive project. Having been totally absorbed in both uncovering and imagining her eighteenth-century ...
... scene in La Maison Trestler stages an encounter between patriarchal historiographic tradition and a female narrator's reconstructive project. Having been totally absorbed in both uncovering and imagining her eighteenth-century ...
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... scene is marked by moments of unexpected complicity and similarity. As they together pore over the photos of J.J., his son Jean-Baptiste, and his granddaughter Iphigénie, the historian sees the history written there as a reassuring ...
... scene is marked by moments of unexpected complicity and similarity. As they together pore over the photos of J.J., his son Jean-Baptiste, and his granddaughter Iphigénie, the historian sees the history written there as a reassuring ...
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... scene of women's writing. The novel opens with the female narrator's whispered call into the dark. She is lying in bed beside her sleeping husband: “Who's There? she was whispering. knock knock. in the dark. only it wasn't dark had ...
... scene of women's writing. The novel opens with the female narrator's whispered call into the dark. She is lying in bed beside her sleeping husband: “Who's There? she was whispering. knock knock. in the dark. only it wasn't dark had ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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