Challenging Canada : dialogism and narrative techniques in Canadian novels

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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Main Author: Helms, Gabriele, 1966-2004
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003
Subjects:
Canadian fiction > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Minorities in literature.
Dialogism (Literary analysis)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Dialogism, cultural narratology, and contemporary Canadian novels: What's the point?
  • Dialogism: Yesterday's "Fave Rave" or opportunity for critical intervention?
  • Storying family history: Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Sky Lee's Disappearing moon cafe
  • Processes of Un/reading in Daphne Marlatt's Ana historic and Aritha van Herk's Places far from Ellesmere
  • Critiquing the choice that is not one: Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Thomas King's Green grass, running water
  • Is difficulty impolite? The performative in Margaret Sweatman's Fox
  • Writing into the page ahead.

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