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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... Michaels, Fugitive Pieces Nicole Brossard, Hier isag Margaret Atwood, In Search of Alias Grace ji Nicole Brossard, Journal intime jsm Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie jte Geneviève Amyot, Je t'écrirai encore demain Louise ...
... Michaels, Fugitive Pieces Nicole Brossard, Hier isag Margaret Atwood, In Search of Alias Grace ji Nicole Brossard, Journal intime jsm Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie jte Geneviève Amyot, Je t'écrirai encore demain Louise ...
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... loss and mourning leads me to a consideration of the work of memory, which I consider an avatar of mourning. I delve into memory work in Louise Dupré's La Memoria, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces. From Preface xvii.
... loss and mourning leads me to a consideration of the work of memory, which I consider an avatar of mourning. I delve into memory work in Louise Dupré's La Memoria, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces. From Preface xvii.
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... Michaels's Fugitive Pieces. From these engagements with loss and remembering, I move in the third chapter into the apocalyptic present of Marie-Claire Blais's Visions d'Anna, L'Ange de la solitude, Soifs, Dans la foudre et la lumière ...
... Michaels's Fugitive Pieces. From these engagements with loss and remembering, I move in the third chapter into the apocalyptic present of Marie-Claire Blais's Visions d'Anna, L'Ange de la solitude, Soifs, Dans la foudre et la lumière ...
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... Michaels, who was born in 1958) were over fifty in the year 2000. These are women of my own generation (or of the generation between mine and my mother's), not of my daughter's generation. Furthermore, the works by these women that I ...
... Michaels, who was born in 1958) were over fifty in the year 2000. These are women of my own generation (or of the generation between mine and my mother's), not of my daughter's generation. Furthermore, the works by these women that I ...
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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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