Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1305-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, 1983). These three texts reveal definite problems in the formation of Canadian female identities, but they also revalorise the traditionally underprivileged halves of binary structures such as: female/male, other/self, body/intellect, subjectivity/objectivity, and Canada/imperial centres.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steenman-Marcusse, Conny

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. Abbreviations used in the text. Introduction. Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature.
Part I
Chapter 1 Postmodernism, Postcolonialism and Feminism in Canada
Chapter 2 Canadian Identity
Part II
Chapter 3 Ontario
Chapter 4 British Columbia
Chapter 5 Nova Scotia
Conclusion
Samenvatting
Notes
Bibliography