National and Female Identity in Canadian Literature, 1965-1980: The Fiction of Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Marian Engel
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| Title: | National and Female Identity in Canadian Literature, 1965-1980: The Fiction of Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Marian Engel |
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| Description: | This book discusses how national identity is depicted among Female Canadian authors in the mid to late twentieth century. It shows the traversal of realism and idealism, ethnicity, gender, and the construction of community in several novels. She argues that most critics emphasize the romance aspects of the novels, particularly because these are women authors, and ignore or overlook the realist dimensions to the stories. Doing this often creates a certain stereotype about women authors, and female identity, that poses issues related to one's national identity. While in the 1960's-80's it was not fashionable to talk about identity as constructed out of a confluence of several competing forces (economic, political, social, racial, gendered, religious), these authors were ahead of their time because this is precisely what they were doing. |
| Authors: | Gault, Cinda |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Women and literature--Canada--History--20th century |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book discusses how national identity is depicted among Female Canadian authors in the mid to late twentieth century. It shows the traversal of realism and idealism, ethnicity, gender, and the construction of community in several novels. She argues that most critics emphasize the romance aspects of the novels, particularly because these are women authors, and ignore or overlook the realist dimensions to the stories. Doing this often creates a certain stereotype about women authors, and female identity, that poses issues related to one's national identity. While in the 1960's-80's it was not fashionable to talk about identity as constructed out of a confluence of several competing forces (economic, political, social, racial, gendered, religious), these authors were ahead of their time because this is precisely what they were doing. |
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| ISBN: | 9780773426221 9780773411210 |
