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Book SynopsisThis study discusses the influences, crossovers, and multiple genres through which women writers represent a changed and changing Canada.
Trade Review"Patricia Demers, an established scholar of early modern literature and gender, has turned more recently to an extensive examination of gender and national literature with Women’s Writing in Canada, an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century and contemporary writing in Canada, with some nods to pre-1950s women in the field." -- Stephen Cain, York University *
The Canadian Historical Review *
"With impressive critical acuity and obvious enthusiasm, Patricia Demers has a range of Canadian female artists in print, film, and music, each contributing to the national story. Non-Canadians interested in the cultural field will be richly informed." -- Patricia Keeney, York University *
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature *
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Imag(in)ing the National Terrain from the Mid-twentieth Century to the Sesquicentennial Approaching National Literature Women in the Linked Roles of Reading and Writing The Commissions: From Massey to Truth and Reconciliation From Total Refusal and the Quiet Revolution to Cultural Accommodation New Images of Movement and Diversity Fiction Prospects at Mid-Century Wrestling with the Strictures of Marriage and Family Revolutionary Talents and Experiments Flowering Careers in the Sixties Trajectories of Celebrity: Munro and Atwood The Tangle of Domesticity and Independence Rhizomes of Sexuality, Nation, Race, and Ethnicity Extensions in 2017 Film Original Screenplays Adaptations of Women’s Writing in Canada Documentaries Poetry Jaques, Livesay, Waddington, and Page: "fired in the kiln of endurance" P.K. Page: Onlooker and Participant Wilkinson, Brewster, Avison, and Macpherson: "clearing the hurdles of sleep" MacEwen and Atwood: "the slow striptease of our concepts" Webb, Lowther, Marlatt, and Brossard: "the way any of us are tangled in the past" Tostevin, Brand, Halfe, and Dumont: "their fragile, fragile symmetries of gain and loss" Crozier, Moure, Zwicky, Carson, Michaels, Bolster, and Shraya: "the truth likes to hide out in the open" Karen Solie: "poetic hipster" Music Folk Singers Reclaiming Traditions Punk, Pop, and Country Adult Contemporary Styling Drama Ringwood: Canadian Drama’s Foremother Joudry, Hendry, and Simons: Examining Emotions Pollock and Bolt: Re-viewing History and Power Politics Sharon Pollock: "meaning through the making of theatre" Ritter, Glass, Clark, and Lill: Enacting Vulnerabilities Thompson and MacDonald: Performing Marginalization and Shape-Shifting Judith Thompson: "through the looking glass, darkly" Gale, Sears, Mojica, Cheechoo, Nolan, and Clements: Recording "Documemories" MacLeod, Moscovitch, and Chatterton: Exploring Impasses Writing for Children Fiction about Children and Young Adults Other Times and Space of Fantasy Illustrated Narratives Non-fiction Memoirists and Autobiographers Commentators on Our World Advisors and Observers Conclusion Timeline Notes Works Cited Credits Index
