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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... feminist historiography in Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Alias Grace, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska's La Maison Trestler, and Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic. In chapter 1, I dig into loss, tracing the re-counting ...
... feminist historiography in Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Alias Grace, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska's La Maison Trestler, and Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic. In chapter 1, I dig into loss, tracing the re-counting ...
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... feminist writers in Canada has always constituted something of an exception to this general rule. There is a strong historical precedent for reading Quebec and English-Canadian women writers together: during the 1980s important feminist ...
... feminist writers in Canada has always constituted something of an exception to this general rule. There is a strong historical precedent for reading Quebec and English-Canadian women writers together: during the 1980s important feminist ...
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... feminist writers take a slightly different stance in relation to the apocalypse script. Lee Quinby argues for a feminist genealogical approach to counter the “masculinist apocalypticism” that, she contends, “thwart[s] 6 Archaeologies of ...
... feminist writers take a slightly different stance in relation to the apocalypse script. Lee Quinby argues for a feminist genealogical approach to counter the “masculinist apocalypticism” that, she contends, “thwart[s] 6 Archaeologies of ...
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... feminist future.35 Their versions of apocalypse thus in some ways resemble Louky Bersianik's feminist utopian reappropriation of the script. Bersianik's description of the catastrophic present paints a grim and familiar picture: Au ...
... feminist future.35 Their versions of apocalypse thus in some ways resemble Louky Bersianik's feminist utopian reappropriation of the script. Bersianik's description of the catastrophic present paints a grim and familiar picture: Au ...
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... feminism to postmodernism. The overlapping preoccupations of these two contemporary critical approaches are evident, as we have already seen, in the way their attention is drawn to “the end ... feminist 8 Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future.
... feminism to postmodernism. The overlapping preoccupations of these two contemporary critical approaches are evident, as we have already seen, in the way their attention is drawn to “the end ... feminist 8 Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future.
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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