Unarrested Archives : Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship / Linda M. Morra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morra, Linda M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Canada--Archives--Case studies.

Women.

Archives--Social aspects--Canada--Case studies.

Archives.

Canadian literature--Women authors--Archives--Case studies.

Canadian literature.

Canada.

Genre:

Case studies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Calling upon the archives of Canadian writers E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), Emily Carr (1871-1945), Sheila Watson (1909-1998), Jane Rule (1931-2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip (1947- ), Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women's archives have been uniquely conceptualized in scholarly discourses and shaped by socio-political forces. She also provides a framework for understanding the creative interventions these women staged to protect their records. Through these case studies, Morra traces the influence of institutions such as national archives and libraries, and regulatory bodies such as border service agencies on the creation, presentation, and preservation of women's archival collections.The deliberate selection of the five literary case studies allows Morra to examine changing archival practices over time, shifting definitions of nationhood and national literary history, varying treatments of race, gender, and sexual orientation, and the ways in which these forces affected the writers' reputations and their archives.Morra also productively reflects on Jacques Derrida'sArchive Feverand postmodern feminist scholarship related to the relationship between writing, authority, and identity to showcase the ways in which female writers in Canada have represented themselves and their careers in the public record.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Archive of Embodiment: Pauline Johnsonâ€?s â€oeA Cry from an Indian Wifeâ€?""; ""2 Her â€oeEyeâ€? Was Her â€oeIâ€?: Emily Carr, Autobiography, and the Archive of Kinship""; ""3 â€oeItâ€?s What You [Donâ€?t] Sayâ€?: Sheila Watson, the Imminent Narrative, and the Archive of Displacement""; ""4 Jane Rule and the Archive of Activism: Negotiating Imaginative â€? and Literal â€? Space for a Nation""; ""5 The Minor Archive: M. NourbeSe Philip and Mediations of Race and Gender in Canada""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-1774-8

1-4426-1773-X

OCLC:

1046613855