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Canadian women writing fiction

Title: Canadian women writing fiction / edited by Mickey Pearlman.
Publication: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Pearlman, Mickey, 1938-

Description

vi, 177 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This collection of ten essays by American and Canadian scholars provides an engaging appraisal of Canada's contemporary women writers at work. Who is the Canadian woman writer? What themes unify the remarkable women writers who have emerged in Canada and occupy so prominent a position in the literary landscape? These questions are addressed here in criticism that defines the Canadian woman writer by her ever-pervasive quest for identity. For the general reader as well as the scholar these essays offer revealing insight into fiction by Margaret Atwood, Sandra Birdsell, Marie-Claire Blais, Beatrice Culleton, Mavis Gallant, Anne Hebert, Janette Turner Hospital, Isabel Huggan, Joy Kogawa, Alice Munro, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Carol Shields, Audrey Thomas, and Jane Urquhart and show how their works mirror the character of contemporary Canadian literature. Central to their fiction are the themes of memory, family, space, and identity. However, it is the search for identity - national, ethnic, racial, individual - that the editor finds to be the linchpin uniting them. No critic would characterize these writers as an amalgamated group, yet in seeing them together here, a reader discerns both the importance of identity for each and the nature of being a woman who has emerged as a writer in Canada.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The art of Alice Munro : memory, identity, and the aesthetics of connection / Georgeann Murphy -- Remittance men : exile and identity in the short stories of Mavis Gallant / Diane Simmons -- Anne Hébert : the tragic melodramas / Marilyn C. Wesley -- Margaret Atwood : reflections in a convex mirror / Roberta White -- Ties that bind in Marie-Claire Blais's Deaf to the City / Martha M. Vertreace -- Identity and the family in the novels of Janette Turner Hospital / Margaret K. Schramm -- Isabel Huggan and Jane Urquhart : feminine in this? / Katherine K. Gottschalk -- The I as sight and site : memory and space in Audrey Thoma's fiction / Virginia Tiger -- Canadian identity and women's voices : the fiction of Sandra Birdsell and Carol Shields / Abby H.P. Werlock -- Canadian women of color in the new world order : Marlene Nourbese Philip, Joy Kogawa, and Beatrice Culleton fight their way home / Heather Zwicker.

ISBN

087805636X
9780878056361

LCCN

92044969
9780878056361

OCLC

ocm27171828
27171828
SCSB-1990759

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library