A collection of essays that studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, it offers a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement.
A collection of essays that studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, it offers a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement.
Eva Darias-Beautell is associate professor of American and Canadian literatures at the University of La Laguna (Spain). She has been Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Toronto, Ottawa, and British Columbia. She is the author of several books notably Graphies and Grafts: (Con)Texts and (Inter)Texts in the Fictions of Four Canadian Women Writers (2001), chosen as one of the ""30 most notable books in Canadian Studies"" by the International Council for Canadian Studies.
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Table of Contents for Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada, edited by Eva Darias-Beautell Introduction: Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada Eva Darias-Beautell ONE: Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s Coral Ann Howells TWO: (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies Smaro Kamboureli THREE: When Race Does Not Matter, "except to everyone else": Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber Ana María Fraile FOUR: Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy's Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) Belén Martín-Lucas FIVE: The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass Eva Darias-Beautell SIX: Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada Richard Cavell SEVEN: Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves María Jesús Hernáez Lerena EIGHT: Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy Michèle Lacombe Contributors Index
Table of Contents for Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada, edited by Eva Darias-Beautell Introduction: Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada Eva Darias-Beautell ONE: Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s Coral Ann Howells TWO: (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies Smaro Kamboureli THREE: When Race Does Not Matter, "except to everyone else": Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber Ana María Fraile FOUR: Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy's Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) Belén Martín-Lucas FIVE: The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass Eva Darias-Beautell SIX: Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada Richard Cavell SEVEN: Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves María Jesús Hernáez Lerena EIGHT: Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy Michèle Lacombe Contributors Index
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