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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... telling histories The past is made of paper. Margaret Atwood68 In her 1996 Charles R. Bronfman Lecture in Canadian Studies, Margaret Atwood pondered the increasing popularity of historical fiction: “Why is it that it is now – within the ...
... telling histories The past is made of paper. Margaret Atwood68 In her 1996 Charles R. Bronfman Lecture in Canadian Studies, Margaret Atwood pondered the increasing popularity of historical fiction: “Why is it that it is now – within the ...
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... telling of history is aimed precisely at absence and driven by desire: Bousculant toute chronologie, s'inventant des grand'mères et des soeurs à foison, les jumelles découvrent le plaisir de peindre.75 [Upsetting all chronology ...
... telling of history is aimed precisely at absence and driven by desire: Bousculant toute chronologie, s'inventant des grand'mères et des soeurs à foison, les jumelles découvrent le plaisir de peindre.75 [Upsetting all chronology ...
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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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