Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship

Linda M. Morra

Published by University of Toronto Press 2014

Unarrested Archives

Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship

Linda M. Morra

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442617735

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About this book

Using five case studies, Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women’s archives have been uniquely approached and shaped by socio-political forces.

Author / Editor information

Morra Linda M. :

Linda M. Morra is an associate professor in the Department of English at Bishop’s University and the current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She edited the collected letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth published with the University of Toronto Press (2006), and edited and annotated Jane Rule’s Taking my Life (2011).

Reviews

Cristina Ivanovici:

‘This minutely researched and thoroughly engaging study expands scholarly understanding of how literary archives are shaped by national institutions.’

Tanis MacDonald:

‘An excellent introduction to textual feminism as a materialist practice…. This book will remind readers of why we need feminism in the second decade of the twenty-first century.’

Andrea Beverley:

‘Morra hopes that her book will encourage researchers to think more broadly about archives’ formations, their locations, and the relationships they organize and epitomize. Her case studies provide a sustained engagement with these issues, although each could be read as a fascinating stand-alone piece.’

Patricia Demers:

‘Through its range of genres and cultural periods, meticulous scholarship, and respect for the public life of women writers’ documents, Unarrested Archives recalibrates perspectives on what might be uncovered and what must be preserved.’

Kate Eichhorn, Culture and Media Program, The New School:

“Linda Morra’s Unarrested Archives reminds us that the arrival of a writer’s fonds in an archive marks the inauguration of another public life – one structured by the legal and political complex of the archive itself. Theoretically sophisticated and meticulously researched, the case studies that compose Morra’s study trace how five Canadian women writers and their works have been reinvented, appropriated, and at times eclipsed by the national, institutional, and private archives where their collections are housed. A notable contribution to theorizing on Canadian literature, women’s writing, and archives, this book will be of interest to scholars, archivists, and anyone with an interest in the legal and political terrain of contemporary archives.”

Dean Irvine, Department of English, Dalhousie University:
“This isn’t just a book of exhaustively researched case studies about women, archives, and CanLit; it represents a vital and compelling response to the transformation of archival studies that is presently taking place across multiple disciplines.”

Carole Gerson, Department of English, Simon Fraser University:
“The Unarrested Archive contains five excellent studies of Canadian women writers and their personal and literary archives. This book will make an important contribution to Canadian literary and cultural studies.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Archive of Embodiment: Pauline Johnson’s “A Cry from an Indian Wife” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Her “Eye” Was Her “I”: Emily Carr, Autobiography, and the Archive of Kinship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
3. “It’s What You [Don’t] Say”: Sheila Watson, the Imminent Narrative, and the Archive of Displacement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Jane Rule and the Archive of Activism: Negotiating Imaginative – and Literal – Space for a Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
5. The “Minor” Archive: M. NourbeSe Philip and Mediations of Race and Gender in Canada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256

eBook

Published: December 18, 2014
ISBN: 9781442617735