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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... survival, between past and present, between present and future, as these tensions are reflected upon and inscribed in late twentieth-century works by twelve women writers from Quebec and English Canada. The analysis focuses on the ways ...
... survival, between past and present, between present and future, as these tensions are reflected upon and inscribed in late twentieth-century works by twelve women writers from Quebec and English Canada. The analysis focuses on the ways ...
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... survival, hope and despair. Chapter 4 explores the frontiers of “reality” in Nicole Brossard's Baroque d'aube, a novel in which interweavings of memory and imagination challenge both spatial and temporal bearings and suggest ...
... survival, hope and despair. Chapter 4 explores the frontiers of “reality” in Nicole Brossard's Baroque d'aube, a novel in which interweavings of memory and imagination challenge both spatial and temporal bearings and suggest ...
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... survival looms large in all of the novels considered in this study. Even when the millennial ending is not addressed directly, it seems to have left a residue in the minds of these authors. Their fictions inscribe women's creative ...
... survival looms large in all of the novels considered in this study. Even when the millennial ending is not addressed directly, it seems to have left a residue in the minds of these authors. Their fictions inscribe women's creative ...
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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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