Contemporary Canadian women's fiction : refiguring identities / Coral Ann Howells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howells, Coral Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Canadian fiction--Women authors.

Women and literature--Canada--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Canada.

History.

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada' s literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a representative range of fictions in English by women from a variety of ethnocultural backgrounds, Coral Ann Howells examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. What does " Refiguring Identities" mean for these writers, given their individual agendas and the multiple affiliation of any woman' s identity construction? All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generations, and Howells argues that women' s fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change, introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multicultural Canada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-226) and index.

ISBN:

0312239009

OCLC:

51984896

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