This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, 1983). These three texts reveal definite problems in the formation of Canadian female identities, but they also revalorise the traditionally underprivileged halves of binary structures such as: female/male, other/self, body/intellect, subjectivity/objectivity, and Canada/imperial centres.
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Represents a significant contribution to Canadian Studies -- Canadian Literature 182/ Autumn 2004
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- PublisherBrill Academic Pub
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 9042013052
- ISBN 13 9789042013056
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages246