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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... Mère et Gainsbourg Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, La Maison Trestler o Joy Kogawa, Obasan Nicole Brossard, “Oeuvre de chair et métonymies” Marie-Claire Blais, Soifs Marie-Claire Blais, Visions d'Anna Madeleine Gagnon, Le Vent majeur m ...
... Mère et Gainsbourg Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, La Maison Trestler o Joy Kogawa, Obasan Nicole Brossard, “Oeuvre de chair et métonymies” Marie-Claire Blais, Soifs Marie-Claire Blais, Visions d'Anna Madeleine Gagnon, Le Vent majeur m ...
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... Mère et Gainsbourg, Betsy Warland's Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss, and Geneviève Amyot's Je t'écrirai encore demain. In chapter 2, my analysis of loss and mourning leads me to a consideration of the work of memory ...
... Mère et Gainsbourg, Betsy Warland's Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss, and Geneviève Amyot's Je t'écrirai encore demain. In chapter 2, my analysis of loss and mourning leads me to a consideration of the work of memory ...
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... mères et des soeurs à foison, les jumelles découvrent le plaisir de peindre.75 [Upsetting all chronology, inventing for themselves grandmothers and sisters galore, the twins discover the pleasure of painting.] but I don't want history's ...
... mères et des soeurs à foison, les jumelles découvrent le plaisir de peindre.75 [Upsetting all chronology, inventing for themselves grandmothers and sisters galore, the twins discover the pleasure of painting.] but I don't want history's ...
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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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