Unruly Penelopes and the ghosts : narratives of English Canada /
Unruly Penelopes and the ghosts : narratives of English Canada /
Eva Darias-Beautell, editor.
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada / Eva Darias-Beautell -- Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s / Coral Ann Howells -- (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies / Smaro Kamboureli -- When Race Does Not Matter, "except to everyone else": Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber / Ana María Fraile -- Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy's Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) / Belén Martín-Lucas -- The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass / Eva Darias-Beautell -- Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada / Richard Cavell -- Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves / María Jesús Hernáez Lerena -- Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy / Michèle Lacombe.
A collection of essays that studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, it offers a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement.
9781554586387 1554586380 9781554582617 155458261X
(AMICUS)000040070248
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Canadian literature (English)--History and criticism.--20th century
Littérature canadienne-anglaise--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Canadiens dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PR9184.6 / .U57 2012eb
C810.9/0054
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada / Eva Darias-Beautell -- Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s / Coral Ann Howells -- (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies / Smaro Kamboureli -- When Race Does Not Matter, "except to everyone else": Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber / Ana María Fraile -- Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy's Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) / Belén Martín-Lucas -- The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass / Eva Darias-Beautell -- Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada / Richard Cavell -- Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves / María Jesús Hernáez Lerena -- Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy / Michèle Lacombe.
A collection of essays that studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, it offers a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement.
9781554586387 1554586380 9781554582617 155458261X
(AMICUS)000040070248
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Canadian literature (English)--History and criticism.--20th century
Littérature canadienne-anglaise--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Canadiens dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PR9184.6 / .U57 2012eb
C810.9/0054