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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... siècle chez Marie-Claire Blais” in Francographies, tome II, no. 3, 2000; “Memory and Imagination in the Writings of Nicole Brossard” in International Journal of Canadian Studies 22, fall 2000; “The Future of Memory in Louise Dupré's La ...
... siècle chez Marie-Claire Blais” in Francographies, tome II, no. 3, 2000; “Memory and Imagination in the Writings of Nicole Brossard” in International Journal of Canadian Studies 22, fall 2000; “The Future of Memory in Louise Dupré's La ...
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... siècles, c'est écraser le marbre statuaire, c'est faucher l'avenir, engendrer du futur archéologique. Écrire c'est marcher jusqu'à ce que le départ soit oublié. [Writing is striding across walls, striding across deaths, oceans ...
... siècles, c'est écraser le marbre statuaire, c'est faucher l'avenir, engendrer du futur archéologique. Écrire c'est marcher jusqu'à ce que le départ soit oublié. [Writing is striding across walls, striding across deaths, oceans ...
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... siècle, they started thinking in terms of beginnings and endings. What did it mean to reach the end of a hundred-year span? The question of “the meaning of the century” was perhaps particularly salient because one hundred years is ...
... siècle, they started thinking in terms of beginnings and endings. What did it mean to reach the end of a hundred-year span? The question of “the meaning of the century” was perhaps particularly salient because one hundred years is ...
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... siècle inventory that includes such familiar end-of-life strategies as “tying up loose ends,” “compulsively counting down,” and “going for broke.”5 But the end of the twentieth century was not just any fin de siècle; it also marked the ...
... siècle inventory that includes such familiar end-of-life strategies as “tying up loose ends,” “compulsively counting down,” and “going for broke.”5 But the end of the twentieth century was not just any fin de siècle; it also marked the ...
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... siècles” [a solution of continuity, a radical rupture in the sequence of centuries].37 She calls for a demolition of “la séquence [patriarcale] pour amorcer un nouveau commencement des temps” [patriarchal sequence in order to initiate a ...
... siècles” [a solution of continuity, a radical rupture in the sequence of centuries].37 She calls for a demolition of “la séquence [patriarcale] pour amorcer un nouveau commencement des temps” [patriarchal sequence in order to initiate a ...
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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