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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... speaking Canada and Quebec, with close analysis of the French texts in their original language. It is, of course, important to recall that the work of many feminist writers in Canada has always constituted something of an exception to ...
... speaking Canada and Quebec, with close analysis of the French texts in their original language. It is, of course, important to recall that the work of many feminist writers in Canada has always constituted something of an exception to ...
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... speak to our present as they offer ways of breaking cycles of damage and loss and of looking back and thinking ahead with attentiveness and care. ARCHAEOLOGIES OF AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE This page intentionally left blank xx Preface.
... speak to our present as they offer ways of breaking cycles of damage and loss and of looking back and thinking ahead with attentiveness and care. ARCHAEOLOGIES OF AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE This page intentionally left blank xx Preface.
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... speak] (Mt 55, emphasis added). The narrator pursues the metaphor several pages later when she comments: “Catherine n'est pas née du sexe de ses parents. Elle est une création de mon esprit ... Bientôt elle prendra corps ... [Elle] ...
... speak] (Mt 55, emphasis added). The narrator pursues the metaphor several pages later when she comments: “Catherine n'est pas née du sexe de ses parents. Elle est une création de mon esprit ... Bientôt elle prendra corps ... [Elle] ...
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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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