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Challenging territory : the writing of Margaret Laurence
- Title
- Challenging territory : the writing of Margaret Laurence / edited by Christian Riegel.
- Publication
- Edmonton, Alta., Canada : University of Alberta Press, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9199.3.L33 Z534 1997g | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Riegel, Christian.
- Description
- xxiii, 260 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In a postmodern and postcolonial age, how do we approach the writing of Margaret Laurence? Challenging Territory demands of the reader a re-evaluation of the basic assumptions that underlie their understanding of Laurence's life and writing by addressing the full range of her writing. Laurence is presented as Canadian, colonial and postcolonial subject; as feminist, humanist and political active individual; and as essayist, translator, journalist, memoir writer and fiction writer.
- The essays stake out a critical territory as well as offer a challenge to territory previously mapped by the criticism - in addition to charting critical space never before traced."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243) and index.
- Contents
- 1. (Mis)Speaking: Laurence Writes Africa / Mary Rimmer -- 2. Writing About Others: The African Stories / Gabrielle Collu -- 3. The African and Canadian Heroines: From Bondage to Grace / Barbara Pell -- 4. The Stone Angel as a Feminine Confessional Novel / Brenda Beckman-Long -- 5. "Rest Beyond The River": Mourning in A Bird in the House / Christian Riegel -- 6. Becoming the Mother: Constructions of the Maternal in the The Diviners / Meira Cook -- 7. Jesting Within: Voices of Irony and Parody as Expressions of Feminisms / Jill Franks -- 8. "Sisters Under Their Skins": A Jest Of God and The Fire-Dwellers / Nora Foster Stovel -- 9. Orphan and Amputee: A Search for Ancestors in The Diviners and Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose / Dick Harrison -- 10. The Scots Presbyterian Legacy / Angelika Maeser Lemieux -- 11. Early Influences: Laurence's Newspaper Career / Donez Xiques -- 12. "In Cases of Emergency": The Political Writing / Thomas M. F. Gerry.
- ISBN
- 088864289X :
- LCCN
- cn 97910001
- OCLC
- 36341371
- ocm36341371
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries