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Canadian Women Writing Fiction »
Authors: Mickey Pearlman
ISBN-13: 9780878056361, ISBN-10: 087805636X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Date Published: June 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Mickey Pearlman
Book Synopsis
A search for the sense of identity in the works of fourteen Canadian women writers
Booknews
Alice Munro, Anne Hebert, and Margaret Atwood are among the contemporary Canadian writers considered in ten commissioned essays. Both the literary scholar and the lay reader can search for the traits peculiar to their gender and nationality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1 | The Art of Alice Munro: Memory, Identity, and the Aesthetics of Connection | 12 |
| 2 | Remittance Men: Exile and Identity in the Short Stories of Mavis Gallant | 28 |
| 3 | Anne Hebert: The Tragic Melodramas | 41 |
| 4 | Margaret Atwood: Reflections in a Convex Mirror | 53 |
| 5 | Ties That Bind in Marie-Claire Blais's Deaf to the City | 70 |
| 6 | Identity and the Family in the Novels of Janette Turner Hospital | 84 |
| 7 | Isabel Huggan and Jane Urquhart: Feminine in This? | 99 |
| 8 | The I as Sight and Site: Memory and Space in Audrey Thomas's Fiction | 116 |
| 9 | Canadian Identity and Women's Voices: The Fiction of Sandra Birdsell and Carol Shields | 126 |
| 10 | Canadian Women of Color in the New World Order: Marlene Nourbese Philip, Joy Kogawa, and Beatrice Culleton Fight Their Way Home | 142 |
| Notes | 155 | |
| Contributors | 171 | |
| Index | 175 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism American & Canadian Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism French Literature
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Literary Criticism American & Canadian LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism French LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism