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Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future

Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing

Karen McPherson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:15th Dec '06

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A study of memory and time in the work of Canadian women writers from Anne Michaels to Joy Kogawa. This work explores the memory work, alternative historiographies, and feminist aesthetics by which women writers revisit the past and re-imagine the future.A critical study of memory and time in the work of recent Canadian women writers from Anne Michaels to Joy Kogawa

"While McPherson's book offers important insights to the scholar, it will also be of interest to the non-expert. The book is very well researched: just the careful and extensive discussion of the literature (in the broad sense) on memory is very valuable. McPherson mentions that she spent 10 years writing the book, and I can believe that 10 years were needed to produce a volume of such knowledge and insight." American Review of Canadian Studies "McPherson is, simply put, a gifted, supple critic who makes us want to read (or reread) the novels she examines with such warmth and depth of understanding. Both students and scholars of Canadian and Quebec women's literature will find in McPherson's wor

ISBN: 9780773531352

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 566g

330 pages