Challenging Canada: dialogism and narrative techniques in Canadian novels

"Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from posi...

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Main Author: Helms, Gabriele 1966-2004 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press [2003]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from positions of difference and resistance, inscribing previously oppressed and silenced voices through dialogic relations. She makes Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism amenable to textual analysis and problematizes its ideological forces by emphasizing elements of struggle and conflict. Challenging Canada rejects dialogism as a normative liberal pluralism and understands the inequality between voices as historically and socially constructed."-- Schutzumschlag
Physical Description:x, 212 Seiten
ISBN:9780773525870
0773525874

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