How can we approach Margaret Laurence's writing in a postcolonial and postmodern age? Challenging Territory is a collection of essays that examine positionality across the range of Laurence's writing, from her early journalism through the fiction to the late nonfiction.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459303652
- LCCN
- PR9294.A745
- LCCN Item number
- Z564 1997eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBVAU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxiii, 260 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603407 (OCoLC)243595385 (CaOOCEL)405633
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Contributors 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction: Recognizing the Multiplicity of the Oeuvre 12
- 1 (Mis) Speaking: Laurence Writes Africa 26
- 2 Writing About Others: The African Stories 44
- 3 The African and Canadian Heroines: From Bondage to Grace 58
- 4 The Stone Angel as a Feminine Confessional Novel 72
- 5 "Rest Beyond The River": Mourning in A Bird in the House 92
- 6 Becoming the Mother: Constructions of the Maternal in the The Diviners 106
- 7 Jesting Within: Voices of Irony and Parody as Expressions of Feminisms 124
- 8 "Sisters Under Their Skins": A Jest Of God and The Fire-Dwellers 144
- 9 Orphan and Amputee: A Search for Ancestors in The Diviners and Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose 164
- 10 The Scots Presbyterian Legacy 188
- 11 Early Influences: Laurence's Newspaper Career 212
- 12 "In Cases of Emergency": The Political Writing 236
- Bibliography 256
- Index 270
- A 270
- B 271
- C 271
- D 273
- E 274
- F 274
- G 275
- H 275
- I 276
- J 276
- K 276
- L 277
- M 278
- N 279
- O 280
- P 280
- Q 281
- R 281
- S 282
- T 283
- U 284
- V 284
- W 284
- Y 285
- Z 285
