Unarrested Archives - Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women''s Authorship

Informationen zum Autor Linda M. Morra is an associate professor in the Department of English at Bishop’s University and the current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She edited the collected letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth published with the University of Toronto Press (2006), and edited and annotated Jane Rule’s Taking my Life (2011). Klappentext Using five case studies, Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women’s archives have been uniquely approached and shaped by socio-political forces. Zusammenfassung Using five case studies, Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women’s archives have been uniquely approached and shaped by socio-political forces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Archive of Embodiment: Pauline Johnson’s “ A Cry from an Indian Wife” 2. Her “Eye” Was Her “I”: Emily Carr, Autobiography, and the Archive of Kinship 3. “It’s What You [Don’t] Say”: Sheila Watson, the Imminent Narrative, and the Archive of Displacement 4. Jane Rule and the Archive of Activism: Negotiating Imaginative – and Literal – Space for a Nation 5. The Minor Archive: M. NourbeSe Philip and Mediations of Race and Gender in Canada Conclusion

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• Authors: Linda M. Morra, Linda Morra, Linda M Morra, Linda M. Morra
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9781442626423
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-2642-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Kanada, Gender Studies: Gruppen