Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women WritingAn apocalyptic vision of planetary self-destruction provided the context for many late twentieth-century narratives. Women writers from Quebec and English Canada, including Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, Madeleine Gagnon, Betsy Warland, Marie-Claire Blais, and Nicole Brossard, redefined their relationship to time and narrative in order to tell a different, perhaps more hopeful, story. Using "archaeology" as a trope and a methodology, Karen McPherson's "critical excavations" of these women's writings pose questions about loss and mourning, survival and witnessing, devastation and writing, remembering and imagining. |
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... and valuable feedback on the chapters on Brossard. I am also deeply grateful to all of my writers for their vision and their voices and especially to Nicole Brossard, Marie-Claire Blais, and Louise Dupré for the light they Acknowledgments.
... and valuable feedback on the chapters on Brossard. I am also deeply grateful to all of my writers for their vision and their voices and especially to Nicole Brossard, Marie-Claire Blais, and Louise Dupré for the light they Acknowledgments.
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... Blais” in Québec Studies 25, spring 1998, 80–96; “Writing the Present in Nicole Brossard's Baroque d'aube” in American Review of Canadian Studies, fall 2000, 361–83; “Survivre au siècle chez Marie-Claire Blais” in Francographies, tome ...
... Blais” in Québec Studies 25, spring 1998, 80–96; “Writing the Present in Nicole Brossard's Baroque d'aube” in American Review of Canadian Studies, fall 2000, 361–83; “Survivre au siècle chez Marie-Claire Blais” in Francographies, tome ...
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Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing Karen McPherson. This page intentionally left blank Abbreviations acd as ba ds fl fp h Marie-Claire Blais,
Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing Karen McPherson. This page intentionally left blank Abbreviations acd as ba ds fl fp h Marie-Claire Blais,
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... Blais, Augustino et le choeur de la destruction ah Daphne Marlatt, Ana Historic Marie-Claire Blais, L'Ange de la solitude Nicole Brossard, Baroque d'aube br Betsy Warland, Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss Madeleine Gagnon ...
... Blais, Augustino et le choeur de la destruction ah Daphne Marlatt, Ana Historic Marie-Claire Blais, L'Ange de la solitude Nicole Brossard, Baroque d'aube br Betsy Warland, Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss Madeleine Gagnon ...
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... 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 Blais's vision of a threatened “generation” on the precarious threshold between ...
... 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 Blais's vision of a threatened “generation” on the precarious threshold between ...
Contents
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1 The Language of Grief | 32 |
2 Memory Works | 58 |
3 Precarious Thresholds | 116 |
4 Thinking the Future | 167 |
5 Today and Tomorrow | 205 |
Notes | 225 |
Bibliography | 275 |
Index | 289 |
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