Women and narrative identity : rewriting the Quebec national text / Mary Jean Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Mary Jean Matthews.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Women and Narrative Identity Green demonstrates that the "national text" has at times functioned to constrain women's literary expression, while in other cases it has empowered the feminine voice, endowing it with a unique identitary power. She shows that writers such as Laure Conan, Germaine Guèvremont, Gabrielle Roy, Anne Hébert, and Marie-Claire Blais have been recognized as important because they have been widely perceived as speaking to and about the people of Quebec. The Quebec identity narrative has offered women writers a framework within which they are able not only to make their voices heard but to tell a story of feminine dispossession and desire that often questions central cultural values. Green shows that while women writers in Europe and America have subtly altered the form of the novel, in Quebec women have, in rewriting the narratives of Quebec identity, also redefined the terms of the nation itself.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations

Introduction

Writing Passion into the National Text

Women and the Romance of the Land

Women in Revolution

Rewriting the Narratives of Identity

New Narratives of Identity in a Multicultural Quebec

Notes

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85902-1

9786612859021

0-7735-6887-5

OCLC:

80221158