Challenging Canada : dialogism and narrative techniques in Canadian novels /
"Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from posi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2003
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from positions of difference and resistance, inscribing previously oppressed and silenced voices through dialogic relations. She makes Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism amenable to textual analysis and problematizes its ideological forces by emphasizing elements of struggle and conflict. Challenging Canada rejects dialogism as a normative liberal pluralism and understands the inequality between voices as historically and socially constructed."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-206) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773571297 0773571299 1282861336 9781282861336 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
