Memory and Identity in Canadian Fiction: Self-Inventive Storytelling in the Works of Five Authors - Softcover

Selby, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786497521 ISBN 13: 9780786497522

Publisher: McFarland, 2018

Synopsis

Covering the works of Canadian authors Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood and Drew Hayden Taylor, the author explores how the themes of memory, storytelling and identity develop in their fiction. For the narrative voices in these works, the past is embedded in the present and a wider cultural history is written over with personal significance. The act of storytelling shapes the characters' lives, letting them rewrite the past and be haunted by it. Storytelling becomes an existential act of everyday connection among ordinary people and daily (often unrecognized) acts of heroism.

About this title

About the Author

Sharon Selby is a professor of literature and writing at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.

From the Back Cover

Covering the works of Canadian authors Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood and Drew Hayden Taylor, the author explores how the themes of memory, storytelling and identity develop in their fiction. For the narrative voices in these works, the past is embedded in the present and a wider cultural history is written over with personal significance. The act of storytelling shapes the characters' lives, letting them rewrite the past and be haunted by it. Storytelling becomes an existential act of everyday connection among ordinary people and daily (often unrecognized) acts of heroism.

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786497521
• ISBN 13: 9780786497522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210