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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... vision and their voices and especially to NicoleBrossard, Marie-Claire Blais, and Louise Dupré for the light they cast on the present and on the path ahead as we venture into the twenty-first century. Finally, I need to mention my ...
... vision and their voices and especially to NicoleBrossard, Marie-Claire Blais, and Louise Dupré for the light they cast on the present and on the path ahead as we venture into the twenty-first century. Finally, I need to mention my ...
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... Ouellette-Michalska, La Maison Trestler O Joy Kogawa, Obasan OCM Nicole Brossard, “Oeuvre de chair et métonymies” S Marie-Claire Blais, Soifs VA Marie-Claire Blais, Visions d'Anna VM Madeleine Gagnon, Le Vent Abbreviations.
... Ouellette-Michalska, La Maison Trestler O Joy Kogawa, Obasan OCM Nicole Brossard, “Oeuvre de chair et métonymies” S Marie-Claire Blais, Soifs VA Marie-Claire Blais, Visions d'Anna VM Madeleine Gagnon, Le Vent Abbreviations.
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... work, alternative histories, and translation, to transmute the death sentence that, as part of an apocalyptic vision of planetary self-destruction, seems 2 to loom over so many late twentieth-century narratives. I Preface.
... work, alternative histories, and translation, to transmute the death sentence that, as part of an apocalyptic vision of planetary self-destruction, seems 2 to loom over so many late twentieth-century narratives. I Preface.
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... 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 Blais's vision of a threatened “generation” on the precarious threshold between annihilation and ...
... 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 Blais's vision of a threatened “generation” on the precarious threshold between annihilation and ...
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... visions of war without end, civilizations on the brink of annihilation. At the same time, the ever-intensifying struggles between progress and degeneration are accompanied by a terrifying tendency toward cultural amnesia. Our planet is ...
... visions of war without end, civilizations on the brink of annihilation. At the same time, the ever-intensifying struggles between progress and degeneration are accompanied by a terrifying tendency toward cultural amnesia. Our planet is ...
Contents
Memory Works | |
Precarious Thresholds | |
Thinking the Future | |
Today and Tomorrow | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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