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Unruly Penelopes & the Ghosts

Autor Eva Darias-Beautell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2012
This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of the 1960s and 70s, when the supposed absence or weakness of a national sense became the touchstone for official discourses on the cultural identity of the country. That type of metaphor provided the nation with the distinctive elements it was looking for and contributed to the creation of a sense of tradition that has survived to the present. In the following decades, however, critics, artists, and writers have repeatedly questioned such a model of national identity, still fragile and in need of articulation, by reading the nation from alternative perspectives such as multiculturalism, environmentalism, (neo)regionalism, feminism, or post-colonialism. These contributors suggest that the artistic and cultural flowering Canada is experiencing at the beginning of the twenty-first century is, to a great extent, based on the dismantlement of the images constructed to represent the nation only forty years ago. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, the authors offer a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement. Together, they read as an unruly Penelopiad, their unravelling readings self-consciously interrogating Canadas (lack of) ghosts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781554583638
ISBN-10: 1554583632
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, figures
Dimensiuni: 233 x 161 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Table of Contents for
Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada, edited by Eva Darias-Beautell

Introduction: Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada | Eva Darias-Beautell

ONE: Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s | Coral Ann Howells

TWO: (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies | Smaro Kamboureli

THREE: When Race Does Not Matter, "except to everyone else": Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber | Ana María Fraile

FOUR: Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy's Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) | Belén Martín-Lucas

FIVE: The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass | Eva Darias-Beautell

SIX: Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada | Richard Cavell

SEVEN: Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves | María Jesús Hernáez Lerena

EIGHT: Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy | Michèle Lacombe

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