What does it mean to tell a story from a woman’s point of view? How have Canadian anglophone and francophone writers translated feminist literary theory into practice?
Avant-garde writers Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard answer these, and many more questions, in their two groundbreaking works, now made more accessible through the careful, narratological readings and theoretical background in Narrative in the Feminine.
Susan Knutson begins her study with an analysis of the contributions made by Marlatt and Brossard to international feminist theory. Part Two presents a narratological reading of How Hug a Stone, arguing that at the deepest level of narrative, Marlatt constructs a gender-inclusive human subject which defaults not to the generic masculine but to the feminine. Part Three proposes a parallel reading of Picture Theory, Brossard’s playful novel that draws us into (re-) readings of many other texts written by Brossard, Barnes, Wittig, Joyce, de Beauvoir, Homer...to name a few. Chapter 12 closes with a reflection on the expression <’e>criture au f<’e>minin — a Qu<’e>b<’e>cois contribution to an international theoretical debate.
Readers who care about feminist writing and language theory, and students and teachers of Canadian literature and critical and queer studies, will find this book invaluable for its careful readings, its scholarly overview, and its extension of the feminist concept of the generic. Not least, the study is a guide to two important works of the leading experimental writers of Canada and Quebec, Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0889203016 9780889207424
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- PR9298.A754
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- H683eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 233 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521587 (CaBNVSL)gtp00521587 (OCoLC)45844439 (CaOOCEL)402509
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Table of Contents
- Contents 4
- List of Figures 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Abbreviations 10
- Preface 12
- PART ONE: Gender and Narrative Grammar 14
- 1 Writing Women: Some Introductory Questions 16
- 2 Theories of the (Masculine) Generic 36
- 3 Narrative, Gnosis, Cognition, Knowing: Em[+female]bodied Narrative and the Reinvention of the World 46
- PART TWO: A Narratological Reading of How Hug a Stone 64
- 4 Fabula: Beyond Quest Teleology 66
- 5 Story: Where the Body Is Written 79
- 6 Textual Subjectivity, Marlatt’s i/eye 92
- 7 Intertextual Narrative 108
- PART THREE: A Narratological Reading of Picture Theory 124
- 8 Fabula: Hologram 126
- 9 Story: The Holographic Plate 149
- 10 Text: In Which the Reader Sees a Hologram in Her Mind’s Eye 168
- 11 Intertextual Metanarrative 182
- PART FOUR: Afterword 204
- 12 In the Feminine 206
- PART FIVE: Bibliography, Appendix and Index 220
- Bibliography 222
- Appendix: Daphne Marlatt’s Bibliography 238
- Index 240
- A 240
- B 240
- C 241
- D 241
- E 241
- F 242
- G 242
- H 242
- I 243
- J 243
- K 243
- L 243
- M 243
- N 244
- O 244
- P 244
- Q 244
- R 244
- S 244
- T 245
- U 245
- V 245
- W 245
- Y 246
- Z 246
