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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... of Grief 32 Memory Works 58 3 Precarious Thresholds 116 4 Thinking the Future 167 5 Today and Tomorrow 205 Notes 225 Bibliography 275 Index 289 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments It has been nearly Contents.
... of Grief 32 Memory Works 58 3 Precarious Thresholds 116 4 Thinking the Future 167 5 Today and Tomorrow 205 Notes 225 Bibliography 275 Index 289 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments It has been nearly Contents.
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... are reprinted by permission of Louisiana State University Press from Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller. Copyright © 1996 by Lisel Mueller. a note on translations When I am using a published x Acknowledgments.
... are reprinted by permission of Louisiana State University Press from Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller. Copyright © 1996 by Lisel Mueller. a note on translations When I am using a published x Acknowledgments.
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Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing Karen McPherson. a note on translations When I am using a published translation for the English version of a French text, I have indicated this in the note accompanying the first citation from ...
Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing Karen McPherson. a note on translations When I am using a published translation for the English version of a French text, I have indicated this in the note accompanying the first citation from ...
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... it), good must triumph in the near future with the help of some transcendent power and live forever after in a fundamentally new world.”20 But the new “writers of the apocalypse” also note that such beliefs do Surviving the Century 5.
... it), good must triumph in the near future with the help of some transcendent power and live forever after in a fundamentally new world.”20 But the new “writers of the apocalypse” also note that such beliefs do Surviving the Century 5.
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... note that such beliefs do not come easily at the end of the second millennium. The legacy of the twentieth century is that apocalypse has entered the minds of many without the accompanying belief in revelation. Krishan Kumar notes that ...
... note that such beliefs do not come easily at the end of the second millennium. The legacy of the twentieth century is that apocalypse has entered the minds of many without the accompanying belief in revelation. Krishan Kumar notes that ...
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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