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| Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future : Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing
ISBN: 9780773560222
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Literature;
An apocalyptic vision of planetary self-destruction provided the context for many late twentieth-century narratives. Women writers from Quebec and English Canada, including Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, Madeleine Gagnon, Betsy Warland, Marie-Claire Blais, and Nicole Brossard, redefined their relationship to time and narrative in order to tell a different, perhaps more hopeful, story. Using "archaeology" as a trope and a methodology, Karen McPherson's "critical excavations" of these women's writings pose questions about loss and mourning, survival and witnessing, devastation and writing, remembering and imagining.
McPherson Karen :
Karen McPherson is associate professor of French, University of Oregon, president of the Conseil International d'Études Francophones, and author of Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories. Karen McPherson is associate professor of French, University of Oregon, president of the Conseil International d'Études Francophones, and author of Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories. |
