Contemporary Canadian women's fiction: refiguring identities

"This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a representative range of fictions in English by women from a variety of ethnocultural backgroun...

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Main Author: Howells, Coral Ann 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2003
Edition:1. publ., 1. ed.
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Summary:"This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a representative range of fictions in English by women from a variety of ethnocultural backgrounds, Coral Ann Howells examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. What does "Refiguring Identities" mean for these writers, given their individual agendas and the multiple affiliations of any woman's identity construction? All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generations, and Howells argues that women's fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change, introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multicultural Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:X, 230 S.
ISBN:0312239009

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