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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... instance, considers the reworkings of myth in six historiographic novels from both English-speaking Canada and Quebec, with close analysis of the French texts in their original language. It is, of course, important to recall that.
... instance, considers the reworkings of myth in six historiographic novels from both English-speaking Canada and Quebec, with close analysis of the French texts in their original language. It is, of course, important to recall that.
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... at the beginning of the twenty-first century, speak to our present as they offer ways of breaking cycles of damage and loss and of looking back and thinking ahead with attentiveness and care. ARCHAEOLOGIES OF AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE.
... at the beginning of the twenty-first century, speak to our present as they offer ways of breaking cycles of damage and loss and of looking back and thinking ahead with attentiveness and care. ARCHAEOLOGIES OF AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE.
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... speak into the darkness and emptiness in the hope of hearing an answering voice. The absent mother both interrupts the story (“and now you're dead, Ina, the story has abandoned me. I can't seem to stay on track, nor can my sentence” [ah ...
... speak into the darkness and emptiness in the hope of hearing an answering voice. The absent mother both interrupts the story (“and now you're dead, Ina, the story has abandoned me. I can't seem to stay on track, nor can my sentence” [ah ...
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... speaking of and to the historical marginalization and negation of women's experiences. 87 Her opposition to Richard's kind of history is evident in the way in which the various archival documents scattered through her text are made to ...
... speaking of and to the historical marginalization and negation of women's experiences. 87 Her opposition to Richard's kind of history is evident in the way in which the various archival documents scattered through her text are made to ...
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... springing black above. This was Jeannie, this was something else not Jeannie, not anyone, this was a mouth working its own inarticulate urge, opening deep – ( AH 125) Inscribed metaphorically as a kind of speaking in both Annie's.
... springing black above. This was Jeannie, this was something else not Jeannie, not anyone, this was a mouth working its own inarticulate urge, opening deep – ( AH 125) Inscribed metaphorically as a kind of speaking in both Annie's.
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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