Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature

Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature
ISBN-10
9004490965
ISBN-13
9789004490963
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2021-11-15
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Conny Steenman-Marcusse

Description

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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