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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... fiction – Women authors – History and criticism. 2. Canadian fiction – 20th century – History and criticism. I. Title. ps8089.5.w6m365 2006 c810.9'9287 c2006-903693-4 This book was typeset by Interscript in 10/13 Palatino. For Elise and ...
... fiction – Women authors – History and criticism. 2. Canadian fiction – 20th century – History and criticism. I. Title. ps8089.5.w6m365 2006 c810.9'9287 c2006-903693-4 This book was typeset by Interscript in 10/13 Palatino. For Elise and ...
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... fictions inscribe women's creative struggles with loss, vulnerability, invisibility, isolation, and mortality. In every text the question of survival is posed in provocative and, I would contend, distinctly gender-inflected ways ...
... fictions inscribe women's creative struggles with loss, vulnerability, invisibility, isolation, and mortality. In every text the question of survival is posed in provocative and, I would contend, distinctly gender-inflected ways ...
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... fiction, and utopia would coexist.”66 As I previously noted, my exploration of the work of recent generations of Canadian women writers necessarily engages these ongoing theoretical discussions. Traces of this shifting ground will ...
... fiction, and utopia would coexist.”66 As I previously noted, my exploration of the work of recent generations of Canadian women writers necessarily engages these ongoing theoretical discussions. Traces of this shifting ground will ...
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... fiction” (isag 7). The past three decades have seen a number of important fictional works by Canadian women writers ... fiction as a deliberate feminist project came into its own in Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s.71 As the self ...
... fiction” (isag 7). The past three decades have seen a number of important fictional works by Canadian women writers ... fiction as a deliberate feminist project came into its own in Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s.71 As the self ...
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... fiction inspired by and based on the well-documented history of a house (an eighteenth-century manor house in ... fictional and archival “truths” characterize this alternative way of doing history. As the parallel stories intersect and ...
... fiction inspired by and based on the well-documented history of a house (an eighteenth-century manor house in ... fictional and archival “truths” characterize this alternative way of doing history. As the parallel stories intersect and ...
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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