Margin/Alias : Language and Colonization in Canadian and Quebecois Fiction / Sylvia Soderlind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soderlind, Sylvia, author.

Series:

Theory/culture series ; 6.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Canadian fiction.

Social problems in literature.

French-Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

French-Canadian fiction.

Literature and society--Canada--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 264 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sylvia Söderlind considers the current debate about the relationship between the two discourses of post-colonialism as a political paradigm and postmodernism as a literary practice in Canadian and Québécois fiction, and proposes a methodology that makes it possible to identify and distinguish between features pertaining to the two.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing in the Margin

1. Mapping the Territory

2. Beautiful Losers: The Novel as Cure

3. Trou de mémoire: Writing as Sacrament

4. The New Ancestors: The Writer as Sacrifice

5. L'Elan d'Amérique: The Novel as Echo Chamber

6. Gone Indian: The Novel as Rebus

7. Retracing the Map

Conclusion: Reading in the Margin

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [246]-254) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8027-4

OCLC:

1114839862