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Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts : Narratives of English Canada / Eva Darias-Beautell, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec :
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays that studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, it offers a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""INTRODUCTION: Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada""; ""ONE: Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s""; ""TWO: (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies""; ""THREE: When Race Does Not Matter, “except to everyone else�: Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber""
- ""FOUR: Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy�s Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction)""""FIVE: The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass""; ""SIX: Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada""; ""SEVEN: Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves""; ""EIGHT: Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
- ""Y""""Z""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613863072
- 9781554582617
- 155458261X
- 9781283550628
- 1283550628
- 9781554586387
- 1554586380
- OCLC:
- 809995792
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