Challenging territory : the writing of Margaret Laurence / edited by Christian Riegel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riegel, Christian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laurence, Margaret--Criticism and interpretation.

Laurence, Margaret.

Canadian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we approach Margaret Laurence's writing in a postcolonial and postmodern age? Challenging Territory is a collection of essays that examine positionality across the range of Laurence's writing, from her early journalism through the fiction to the late nonfiction.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Recognizing the Multiplicity of the Oeuvre

1 (Mis) Speaking: Laurence Writes Africa

2 Writing About Others: The African Stories

3 The African and Canadian Heroines: From Bondage to Grace

4 The Stone Angel as a Feminine Confessional Novel

5 "Rest Beyond The River": Mourning in A Bird in the House

6 Becoming the Mother: Constructions of the Maternal in the The Diviners

7 Jesting Within: Voices of Irony and Parody as Expressions of Feminisms

8 "Sisters Under Their Skins": A Jest Of God and The Fire-Dwellers

9 Orphan and Amputee: A Search for Ancestors in The Diviners and Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose

10 The Scots Presbyterian Legacy

11 Early Influences: Laurence's Newspaper Career

12 "In Cases of Emergency": The Political Writing

Bibliography

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243) and index.

ISBN:

1-4593-0365-2

1-4175-9316-4

OCLC:

647753845