National and Female Identity in Canadian Literature, 1965-1980 The Fiction of Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Marian Engel

Summary: 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 no.

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ISBN: 9780773411210 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773411216 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (330 p.)
Publisher: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Topical Table of Contents; Analytical Table of Contents; Abstract; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Grooving the Nation; Chapter 1 "Its different with you, but it's the same": Margaret Laurence and the Slipperiness of Inclusion; Chapter 2 "Good Christ, What Is It?": Margaret Atwood on the defensive; Chapter 3 "Thinking themselves halved when they are atomized": Marian Engel and resistance; Conclusion; Primary Documents; Works Consulted; Index;