Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature /
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 W...
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Iaith: | Saesneg |
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Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL,
2001.
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| Cyfres: | Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Costerus ; 135. |
| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3101191 |
| Crynodeb: | 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. |
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| Disgrifiad Corfforoll: | 1 online resource. |
| Llyfryddiaeth: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004490965 9789042013056 9042013052 9789004490963 |