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Challenging Canada : dialogism and narrative techniques in Canadian novels / Gabriele Helms.
- Title
- Challenging Canada : dialogism and narrative techniques in Canadian novels / Gabriele Helms.
- Author
- Helms, Gabriele, 1966-2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR9192.5 .H46 2003g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 212 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from positions of difference and resistance, inscribing previously oppressed and silenced voices through dialogic relations. She makes Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism amenable to textual analysis and problematizes its ideological forces by emphasizing elements of struggle and conflict. Challenging Canada rejects dialogism as a normative liberal pluralism and understands the inequality between voices as historically and socially constructed."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Dialogism (Literary analysis)
- Canadian fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
- Dialogisme
- Roman canadien-anglais > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique
- Roman canadien-anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Minorités dans la littérature
- Canadian fiction (English) > Minority authors > History and criticism
- Minorities in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Narration
- ISBN
- 0773525874 (bound) :
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries