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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-288) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C810.9/9287
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Limited edition of 450 copies Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780773560222 9780773531352
- LCCN
- PR9194.5.W6
- LCCN Item number
- M37 2006eb
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- NLC
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- 1 electronic text (xx, 303 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00221891 (OCoLC)646788134 (CaOOCEL)424788
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- NLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Abbreviations 14
- Preface 16
- Introduction: Surviving the Century 24
- 1 The Language of Grief 53
- 2 Memory Works 79
- 3 Precarious Thresholds 137
- 4 Thinking the Future 188
- 5 Today and Tomorrow 226
- Notes 246
- Bibliography 296
- Index 310
- A 310
- B 311
- C 313
- D 314
- E 315
- F 315
- G 316
- H 316
- I 317
- J 317
- K 318
- L 318
- M 319
- N 320
- O 321
- P 321
- Q 322
- R 322
- S 322
- T 323
- U 323
- V 323
- W 324
- Y 324
- Z 324
