Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918

Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918 PDF Author: Carole Gerson
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554582393
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Canadian Women in Print, 1750—1918 is the first historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple aspects of print over some two hundred years, from the settlers who wrote diaries and letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights. Considering women’s published writing as an intervention in the public sphere of national and material print culture, this book uses approaches from book history to address the working and living conditions of women who wrote in many genres and for many reasons. This study situates English Canadian authors within an extensive framework that includes francophone writers as well as women’s work as compositors, bookbinders, and interveners in public access to print. Literary authorship is shown to be one point on a spectrum that ranges from missionary writing, temperance advocacy, and educational texts to journalism and travel accounts by New Woman adventurers. Familiar figures such as Susanna Moodie, L.M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, Pauline Johnson, and Sara Jeannette Duncan are contextualized by writers whose names are less well known (such as Madge Macbeth and Agnes Laut) and by many others whose writings and biographies have vanished into the recesses of history. Readers will learn of the surprising range of writing and publishing performed by early Canadian women under various ideological, biographical, and cultural motivations and circumstances. Some expressed reluctance while others eagerly sought literary careers. Together they did much more to shape Canada’s cultural history than has heretofore been recognized.

Sounding Differences

Sounding Differences PDF Author: Janice Rae Williamson
Publisher: Brantford : W. Ross MacDonald School, 1994. (Peterborough : Ontario Audio Library Service)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
In this collection of interviews, Canadian women writers discuss with Janice Williamson (English, U. of Alberta) their thoughts on writing in general and their own work in particular, on the nature of writing as a woman in Canada today, and on the links between women's writing and social change. Each interview is accompanied by a short biocritical piece, a photograph of the writer, and an example of her work. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Intersexions

Intersexions PDF Author: Coomi S. Vevaina
Publisher: New Delhi : Creative Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Collection of essays focusing on issues of ethnicity, race, and gender.

Women’s Writing in Canada

Women’s Writing in Canada PDF Author: Patricia Demers
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487534256
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 475

Book Description
Spanning the period from the Massey Commission to the present and reflecting on the media of print, film, and song, this study attends to the burgeoning energy of women writers across genres. It explores how their work interprets our national story. The questioning, disruptive feminist practice of their fiction, filmmaking, poetry, song-writing, drama, and non-fiction reveals the tensions of colonial society at the same time as it transforms cultural life in Canada. Women’s Writing in Canada resurrects foremothers who were active before and after the mid-century – Ethel Wilson, Gabrielle Roy, Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Dorothy Livesay, and P.K. Page – as well as such forgotten writers as Grace Irwin, Patricia Blondal, and Edna Jaques. Its breadth extends to the contemporary voices and influences of novelists Tracey Lindberg and Heather O’Neill, poets Marilyn Dumont and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, playwrights Hannah Moscovitch and Anna Chatterton, and filmmakers Sarah Polley and Mina Shum. Writing for children as well as memoirs, autobiographies, comic books, and cookbooks illustrate the wide and impressive range of women’s talents.

Redefining the Subject

Redefining the Subject PDF Author: Charlotte Sturgess
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042011755
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
This volume takes up the challenge of Canadian women's writing in its diversity, in order to examine the terms on which subjectivity, in its social, political and literary dimensions, emerges as discourse. Work from writers as diverse as Dionne Brand, Hiromi Goto and Margaret Atwood, among others, are studied both in their specific dimensions and through the collective focus of cultural and textual revision which characterizes Canadian writing in the feminine. Current theorizing on the postcolonial imaginary is brought to bear in the interests of forging or unpacking those links which tie the Self to culture. As such, Redefining the Subject sets out to discover the limits of the aesthetic in its encounter with the political: the figures and designs which envisage textual reimaginings as statements of a contemporary Canadian reality.

Canadian Women Writing Fiction

Canadian Women Writing Fiction PDF Author: Mickey Pearlman
Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
A search for the sense of identity in the works of fourteen Canadian women writers

Representations of Women and Nature in Canadian Women's Writing

Representations of Women and Nature in Canadian Women's Writing PDF Author: Corinna Thömen
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640263693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institut f r Anglistik/Amerikanistik), 64 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Canada has always been associated with its landscape, with a vast and inviolate nature, including prairies, forests with innumerable lakes, idyllic mountain ranges and the Arctic barrens in the far north. With an area of almost 10 million square kilometers, Canada is the second largest country in the world, but with only 31 million people living there and a population density of 3,2 inhabitants per square kilometer, it is also the less populated.1 The theme of nature and wilderness has also been reflected throughout Canadian literary tradition. As Canadian author Aritha van Herk notes, " t]he impact of landscape on artist and artist on landscape is unavoidable" (1992, 139). Adopting the northern concepts of early explorers and settlers, most literature about the Canadian wilderness has been written by male authors. For a long time, the Canadian North served as background for historical romances and adventure stories. The response to the landscape was often very negative, the wilderness was described as being hostile and dangerous. Parallel to that image, the landscape was portrayed in female terms, as being innocent, inviolate and beautiful - the Canadian North appeared as a femme fatale. Especially in its beginnings, Canadian literature was strongly influenced by its American and British predecessors and the early writers reinforced the myth of the Canadian North. In the early twentieth century, the North was mainly a place of retreat for the fictive heroes of the South who went from the city to the wilderness to find themselves. One of the most famous texts of this time is Frederick Philip Grove's autobiography In Search of Myself (1946). His journey to the North became a synonym for the search of the own self.

Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women’s Writing

Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women’s Writing PDF Author: Jennifer Chambers
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443815055
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women’s Writing is a collection of nine essays, thematically arranged, dedicated to the works of women writing between 1828 and 1914. It is for all those readers who were certain that there had to be diverse, interesting, socially relevant voices in early Canadian women’s writing. It is, equally, for sceptics, who will find that early Canada is not bereft of women writers, or of writing of substance. When Lorraine McMullen published the collection of essays Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers in 1990, she considered the field in its infancy. As keen as literary historians and critics have been to assess the contributions of women to Canada’s early cultural scene, this collection moves beyond listing which women were writing in early Canada, and brings together a study of their journalistic and literary works. For a nation caught up in projects to enhance nation-building, and concerned with the development of its national literature, the essays reconnect with early literary works by women. Eighteen years after McMullen’s, this collection shows the progression along the path that hers initiated. Working with theories of genre, gender, socio-politics, literature, history, and drama, the essayists make cases not only for the women writing, but also for the literary voices they created to work for diversity and social change in Canada.

Writing the Circle

Writing the Circle PDF Author: Jeanne Martha Perreault
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124377
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
An anthology of contemporary Native American women's writing including short stories, poems, essays, and memoirs by writers in Canada's prairie provinces and western Northwest Territories. Introduction by Gloria Bird, preface by Emma La Rocque. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Women’s Writing in Canada

Women’s Writing in Canada PDF Author: Patricia Demers
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802095011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description