Research Catalog

Title

Re-writing women into Canadian history : Margaret Atwood and Anne Hébert / Elodie Rousselot.

Author

Rousselot, Elodie

Publication

Québec : L'Instant même, 2013.

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Description

xiii, 214 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Focusing on two 20th century Canadian major female authors of distinct cultural and linguistic backgrounds, Re-Writing Women into Canadian History: Margaret Atwood and Anne Hébert addresses the central role they each give to Canadian history. By assessing the ways in which each author attempts to re-write Canadian history in order to create a specifically female historical space, Dr Elodie Rousselot shows that both Margaret Atwood (1939-) and Anne Hébert (1916-2000) have successfully given a voice to traditionally oppressed female figures. With a careful analysis of socio-economical backgrounds (19th and 20th centuries), Dr Rousselot sheds light on the delicate balance both authors have been able to create between History and the private life of their characters. The immense talent of these internationally acclaimed authors (Atwood won the Booker Prize in 2000; Hébert won the Femina in 1982) is highlighted by Dr Rousselot in a way that will make readers go back to these works of art with renewed interest and curiosity. Elodie Rousselot's analysis focuses on Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Grace, an unpublished play, as well as on her novel Alias Grace. She also examines Anne Hébert's novel Kamouraska, and two plays: La Cage and L'Île de la Demoiselle. Finally, Anne Hébert's success in establishing a Quebecois herstory is assessed through the analysis of her 1988 novel Le Premier Jardin.

Subject

• Hébert, Anne > Criticism and interpretation
• Atwood, Margaret, 1939- > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Women and literature > Canada
• Women authors, Canadian > 20th century
• Canada in literature
• Québec (Province) in literature
• Canada > In literature
• Québec (Province) > In literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kent, Canterbury, 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Contemporary Canadian historiography -- "Un-settling" Canada's past in Margaret Atwood's The journals of Susanna Moodie -- Murder, memory, and history in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- "A few acres of snowy waste": retrieving Quebec's past in Anne Hébert's Kamouraska -- Wilderness, witchcraft, and the transformation of women's past in Anne Hébert's La cage and L'île de la demoiselle -- Unearthing Quebec's "herstory" in Anne Hébert's Le premier jardin.

ISBN

9782895022572 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013433366

OCLC

• 841710351
• SCSB-10908811

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library