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Margin/alias : language and colonization in Canadian and Québécois fiction

Title
Margin/alias : language and colonization in Canadian and Québécois fiction / Sylvia Söderlind.
Author
Söderlind, Sylvia, 1948-
Publication
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1991.

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Description
x, 264 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Theory/culture ; 6
Uniform Title
Theory/culture series ; 6.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1960-1980
  • Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
  • Social problems in literature
  • French-Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
  • Literature and society > Canada > History > 20th century
  • Marginality, Social, in literature
  • Imperialism in literature
  • Colonies in literature
  • Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Canadian fiction
  • Colonies in literature
  • Imperialism in literature
  • Literature and society
  • Marginality, Social, in literature
  • Social problems in literature
  • Französisch
  • Kolonisation Motiv
  • Kolonisation
  • Roman
  • Letterkunde
  • Kolonialisme
  • Canada
  • Kanada
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-254) and index.
Contents
Introduction: writing in the margin -- 1. Mapping the territory -- Myth -- name -- alias -- Metaphor -- metonymy -- Metamorphosis -- Anamorphosis -- allegory -- 2. Beautiful Losers: the novel as cure -- Intertexts -- Naming -- Metamorphosis -- Translation -- Inscription -- 3. Trou de memoire: writing as sacrament -- Anamorphosis -- Magnum opus -- Intertexts -- Names -- Oxymoron -- 4. The New Ancestors: the writer as sacrifice -- Metamorphosis -- Quinta Essentia -- Heteroglossia -- Names -- intertexts -- 5. L'Elan d'Amerique: the novel as echo chamber -- Metaphor -- Repetition -- Intertexts -- Naming -- 6. Gone Indian: the novel as rebus -- Rebus -- Metamorphosis -- Unnaming -- Syllepsis -- 7. Retracing the map -- Quebec -- Canada -- Conclusion: reading in the margin.
ISBN
  • 0802059031
  • 9780802059031
  • 0802068456
  • 9780802068453
LCCN
92143772
OCLC
  • ocm26363428
  • 26363428
  • SCSB-1965639
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library