Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English - Hardcover

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9780195414264: Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English

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ISBN 10: 0195414268 ISBN 13: 9780195414264

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Over the past one hundred and fifty years, and most especially since the late 1960s, Canadian women have made a remarkable contribution to world literature. Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize; Margaret Atwood, Janette Turner Hospital, Anne Michaels, and Carol Shields were short listed for the Booker Award; Atwood and Michaels were nominated for the Orange. This anthology encompasses over a century and a half of writing by Canadian women. The stories collected here represent a cross-section of the best writing by women in the genre and demonstrate a wide range of styles from the realistic to the post-modern and experimental. All the stories are about women: in childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age; in relationships such as daughters, sisters, lovers, mothers; in a variety of social and political contexts. Though all authors are Canadian by birth or choice, nationality and gender have different meanings for each of them. But all write confidently and eloquently of their experience as women. No reader will fail to be amused, enthralled, intrigued, or invigorated.

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About the Author:

Rosemary Sullivan was born in Montreal where she received her B.A. from McGill University. She completed her M.A. at the University of Connecticut and her Ph.D. at the University of Sussex. She has taught at the University of Dijon, the University of Bordeaux, and University of Victoria, and is currently a Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her academic honors include Killam and Guggenheim fellowships, a Canada-United States-Mexico residency award, and a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Teaching Residency in India.

Review:

"The most delicious part of this book is that it brings together a great many very good stories....Readers who love fiction...will be enriched by this collection."--The Montreal Gazette

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