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基本説明
Charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism.
Full Description
This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a representative range of fictions in English by women from a variety of ethnocultural backgrounds, Howells examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. What does 'Refiguring Identities' mean for these writers, given their individual agendas and the multiple affiliation of any woman's identity construction? All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generation, and Howells argues that woman's fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change, introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multi-cultural Canada.
Contents
Introduction: Negotiating Cultural Change in Multicultural Canada 'Don't Ever ask for a True Story': Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) 'Intimate Dislocation': Alice Munro, Open Secrets (1994); Love of a Good Woman (1998) 'Identities Cut in Freestone': Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993); Larry's Party (1997) 'Between; or Where is home?' Nomandic Subjects: Kate Pullinger, The Last Tim I Saw Jane (1996) and Ann Michaels, Fugitive Pieces (1996) Fighting to Make the World Larger, Not Smaller;: Ann-Marie Macdonald, Fall on Your Knees (1996) 'The Wilderness of Memory": Kerri Sakamato, The Electrical Field (1998) 'The Immigrant fiction': Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) 'First Nations': Gail Anderson Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996) and Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach (2000)
