Research Catalog

Title

Reading(s) from a distance : European perspectives on Canadian women's writing / Charlotte Sturgess and Martin Kuester, ed.

Publication

Augsburg : Wissner, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Sturgess, Charlotte.
• Kuester, Martin.

Description

263 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures ; v. 2.

Alternative Title

European perspectives on Canadian women's writing

Subjects

• Strassburg <2005>
• Frauenliteratur
• Kanada
• Englisch
• Women authors, Canadian > History and criticism > Congresses

Note

• " ... a conference on European perspectives on Canadian women's writing that took place on October 28 and 29, 2005, at Strasbourg's Université Marc Bloch."--P. [7].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Europe and Canada: sightings, circulations and the relevance of perspective : Complex transactions: reading from a distance / Coral Ann Howells -- Brand Canada: oppositional politics, global flows, and a people to come / Larissa Lai. Art, landscape, discourse : Rock-a-bye baby, or tribal similarities revisited in Jane Urquhart's The stone carvers / Marta Dvorak -- Multiple challenges: the Canadian artist story and gender / Reingard M. Nischik -- The replication of romance in Jane Urquhart's Away / Claire Omhovère. History, nation, representation : Women and war: representations of histories of violence in contemporary Canadian fiction / Brigitte Glaser -- The return to the shtetl in contemporary Jewish Canadian women's writing: Lilian Nattal and Nancy Richler / Fabienne Quennet -- Gender, genre, textual strategies : Women playing women in Sharon Pollock's Blood relations / Katalin Kürtösi -- Writing women: masks and masquerade in short stories by Alice Munro / Anca-Raluca Radu -- The "new sentimentalism" in recent Canadian fiction: the example of Ann-Marie MacDonald's The way the crow flies / Jutta Zimmermann.
• Filiations, connections, métissages : Relations: mother countries and negotiating identities in contemporary Canadian women's fiction / Mary Condé -- Maternal filiation and "métissage" in Suzanne Jacob's novels / Doris G. Eibl -- Women's views of last men: Mary Shelley's The last man and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Barbara Korte. Space, process, revision : Dis/re/location in No fixed address and Mavericks by Aritha van Herk / Patricia-Léa Paillot -- Textual and urban spaces in Carol Shields's Unless / Caroline Rosenthal -- Toronto in the global city: flows and places in Dionne Brand's What we all long for / Isabel Carrera Suárez -- Ovid sailing the prairies: abandonment and the creative process in Carol Shields's Various miracles / Wolfram R. Keller. Transcultural negotiations, textual configurations : Bridging the gap: transcultural figurations in novels by Lai, Goto, and Mayr / Charlotte Sturgess -- Civil unrest: Larissa Lai and Rita Wong's Sybil unrest and the Canadian long poem tradition / Martin Kuester -- The poetics of exile: a comparative study of the reception of Ying Chen's recent novels in Canada and in France / Christine Lorre.

ISBN

• 9783896396181 (pbk.)
• 3896396188 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocn228666992
• 228666992
• SCSB-5420910

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries