ISBN:
0802044948
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080208270X
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9780802044945
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 348 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Saint-Lazare, Quebec Gibson Library Connections 2008 Canadian electronic library. Books collection Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Remnants of nation
DDC:
305.5/69/0971
Keywords:
Poverty literature
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Canadian prose literature Women authors
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History and criticism
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Canadian prose literature History and criticism 20th century
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Women in literature
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Poverty
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Poor women
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Treating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Disturbing ImagesThe Poor in the National ImaginaryThe Power of ImagesPoverty Narratives: A New Category of AnalysisThe Gender of PovertyFictioning' a LiteratureBeyond Literature: Ordinary VoicesPopulist MotivesCultural Critique as Social TherapyTestimony and Radical KnowledgeVisits and HomecomingsSusanna Moodie: Poverty and ViceNellie McClung: Social Gospel RescueGabrielle Roy: Everyday Struggle as Resistance'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor HousingA Genealogy of Poor HousesAlice Munro's Gazefrom a Distance -- Homeplace and 'Bugs'Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor WomenAnti-Theory, Anti-What?SubjectivitiesTheories of the Classed and Gendered SubjectUnderstanding as Opposed to Mapping SubjectivitiesSubverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of IdentityCy-Thea Sand's Cultural SmugglingMaria Campbell's Halfbreed and Alternative Status-Honour GroupsThe Poor as Colonized SubjectsDecolonizing Poor Subjects through Autobiography'Organized Forgetting'On Autobiographical Memories of Poverty, Class, Gender, and NationPoverty as Distant Landscape: Edna JaquesClass Travelling with Fredelle Bruser Maynard'Remnants of Nation'Poverty and Nation as Reciprocal ConstructionsSaving the Nation: The DivinersStrategies of Containment and ExclusionCounter-national TestimoniesThe Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
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