 | Challenging Canada: Dialogism and Narrative Techniques in Canadian Novels Subjects: Canadian literature (English) -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Minorities in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Dialogism (Literary analysis); Canadian fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; In Challenging Canada Gabriele Helms examines novels by Jeannette Armstrong, Joy Kogawa, Daphne Marlatt, Sky Lee, Aritha van Herk, Thomas King, and Margaret Sweatman. As resistance literature, these novels question the idea of a homogeneous Canadian culture based on the idea of "a peaceable kingdom." Helms shows how narrative techniques can contribute to or impede a text's challenges to hegemonic discourses and social injustices; novels become valuable sources for cultural studies because cultural experiences are translated into and meanings are produced by their narrative forms. |
