Redefining the Subject
Sites of Play in Canadian Women's Writing
Published on 1. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-90-420-1175-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume takes up the challenge of Canadian women's writing in its diversity, in order to examine the terms on which subjectivity, in its social, political and literary dimensions, emerges as discourse. Work from writers as diverse as Dionne Brand, Hiromi Goto and Margaret Atwood, among others, are studied both in their specific dimensions and through the collective focus of cultural and textual revision which characterizes Canadian writing in the feminine. Current theorizing on the postcolonial imaginary is brought to bear in the interests of forging or unpacking those links which tie the Self to culture. As such, Redefining the Subject sets out to discover the limits of the aesthetic in its encounter with the political: the figures and designs which envisage textual reimaginings as statements of a contemporary Canadian reality.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1175-5 (9789042011755)
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Content
INTRODUCTION
COLLECTIVE VOICE: HISTORY AS SUBJECT
Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms: Tracks in a Textual Landscape
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces: Geo-Logical Retrievals
ROUGH CROSSINGS: DISPLACEMENTS, DESTINATIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS
Dionne Brand, Sans Souci and In Another Place, Not Here: a Poetics of Migrancy
Suzette Mayr, The Widows: Kanada/Canada, Bridging the Gap
THE FEMALE SUBJECT AS "OTHER": SYMBOLIC LOCATIONS AND DISLOCATIONS
Evelyn Lau, Other Women and Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid: Consumer Culture, Exotic "Other"
Nicole Brossard, Mauve Desert : Crossings and Sitings
GEO-POLITICAL MAPPINGS: DISTANCE AND DIFFERENCE
Aritha van Herk, Places Far From Ellesmere: Place, Perception, Self
Kristjana Gunnars, The Prowler: Territorial Rights, Textual Ways
GENRE AND GENDER-BENDING
Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips and Good Bones: Myths Revisited, Value Added
Susan Swan, The Wives of Bath: the Female Body in Question
CONCLUSION
WORKS CITED
INDEX
COLLECTIVE VOICE: HISTORY AS SUBJECT
Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms: Tracks in a Textual Landscape
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces: Geo-Logical Retrievals
ROUGH CROSSINGS: DISPLACEMENTS, DESTINATIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS
Dionne Brand, Sans Souci and In Another Place, Not Here: a Poetics of Migrancy
Suzette Mayr, The Widows: Kanada/Canada, Bridging the Gap
THE FEMALE SUBJECT AS "OTHER": SYMBOLIC LOCATIONS AND DISLOCATIONS
Evelyn Lau, Other Women and Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid: Consumer Culture, Exotic "Other"
Nicole Brossard, Mauve Desert : Crossings and Sitings
GEO-POLITICAL MAPPINGS: DISTANCE AND DIFFERENCE
Aritha van Herk, Places Far From Ellesmere: Place, Perception, Self
Kristjana Gunnars, The Prowler: Territorial Rights, Textual Ways
GENRE AND GENDER-BENDING
Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips and Good Bones: Myths Revisited, Value Added
Susan Swan, The Wives of Bath: the Female Body in Question
CONCLUSION
WORKS CITED
INDEX