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Remnants of nation on poverty narratives by women
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442679207 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1442679204 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780802044945
- ISBN: 0802044948 (bound)
- ISBN: 080208270X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780802082701
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1 online resource (x, 348 p.) - Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.
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| General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. CatMonthString:jan.13 Terms of use - CatMonthString:august.17 CatMonthString:september.18 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Disturbing Images -- The Poor in the National Imaginary -- The Power of Images -- Poverty Narratives: A New Category of Analysis -- The Gender of Poverty -- Fictioning' a Literature -- Beyond Literature: Ordinary Voices -- Populist Motives -- Cultural Critique as Social Therapy -- Testimony and Radical Knowledge -- Visits and Homecomings -- Susanna Moodie: Poverty and Vice -- Nellie McClung: Social Gospel Rescue -- Gabrielle Roy: Everyday Struggle as Resistance -- 'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor Housing -- A Genealogy of Poor Houses -- Alice Munro's Gaze -- from a Distance -- Homeplace and 'Bugs' -- Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor Women -- Anti-Theory, Anti-What? -- Subjectivities -- Theories of the Classed and Gendered Subject -- Understanding as Opposed to Mapping Subjectivities -- Subverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of Identity -- Cy-Thea Sand's Cultural Smuggling -- Maria Campbell's Halfbreed and Alternative Status-Honour Groups -- The Poor as Colonized Subjects -- Decolonizing Poor Subjects through Autobiography -- 'Organized Forgetting' -- On Autobiographical Memories of Poverty, Class, Gender, and Nation -- Poverty as Distant Landscape: Edna Jaques -- Class Travelling with Fredelle Bruser Maynard -- 'Remnants of Nation' -- Poverty and Nation as Reciprocal Constructions -- Saving the Nation: The Diviners -- Strategies of Containment and Exclusion -- Counter-national Testimonies -- The Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism. |
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