{"product_id":"margaret-laurence-writes-africa-and-canada-9781771121477","title":"Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada.\u003cp\u003eFocusing on Laurence's published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of English Canada during the implementation of Canadian multiculturalism. Laurence's Canadian characters are often divided subjects who are not quite members of their ancestral \"\"imperial\"\" cultures, yet also not truly \"\"native\"\" to their nation. \u003ci\u003eMargaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Laurence and her characters negotiate complex tensions between \"\"self\"\" and \"\"nation,\"\" and argues that Laurence's African and Canadian writing demonstrates a divided Canadian subject who holds significant implications for both the individual and the country of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together Laurence's writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the study of Canadian literature. The book is an original interpretation of Laurence's work and reveals how she displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted through continually changing social relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMargaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada\u003c\/i\u003e by Laura K. Davis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Writing and Region\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One: Writing About Africa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One: Conflicts of Culture in \u003ci\u003eThe Prophet's Camel Bell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Side Jordan\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two: Toward Cross-Cultural Understanding: Margaret Laurence's Africa in \u003ci\u003eThe Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two: Writing About Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three: Community and the Canadian Nation in \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Angel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Bird in the House\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four: Narrating Nation in \u003ci\u003eThe Diviners\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Essays, Letters, and Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190350045527,"sku":"9781771121477","price":27.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/margaret-laurence-writes-africa-and-canada-9781771121477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}