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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... monde” (1980), she wrote: “La patiente mise à jour de notre mémoire archéologique est déjà accusée de retarder l'histoire. Mais elle doit faire plus: elle doit l'arrêter dans son cours et la retourner comme un gant” [The patient ...
... monde” (1980), she wrote: “La patiente mise à jour de notre mémoire archéologique est déjà accusée de retarder l'histoire. Mais elle doit faire plus: elle doit l'arrêter dans son cours et la retourner comme un gant” [The patient ...
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... monde parce que je suis fabulée comme étant la terre et MAINTENANT LA TERRE TREMBLE. [This subversion, this total upheaval provoked by me, the Other woman, all women, threatens the foundations of this world because I am fantasized as ...
... monde parce que je suis fabulée comme étant la terre et MAINTENANT LA TERRE TREMBLE. [This subversion, this total upheaval provoked by me, the Other woman, all women, threatens the foundations of this world because I am fantasized as ...
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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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