Contemporary theories and Canadian fiction

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    • Darias-Beautell, Eva

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Contemporary theories and Canadian fiction

Eva Darias-Beautell

(Canadian studies, v. 21)

E. Mellen Press, 2000

Other Title

Contemporary theories and Canadian fiction : shifting sands

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Includes bibliograpy and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study attempts to bring together a series of provinces between and within contemporary theory, criticism and fiction. It provides an overview of some of the most complex issues shaping present literary debates with a clear focus on Canadian fiction of the last 20 years of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

  • Visible structures - the theory and literary practices of post-structuralism: discourse, ideology and the subject
  • origin, structure and meaning
  • Derrida's deconstruction
  • practice and problems. The postmodern condition and the text: postmodernism and repesentation
  • postmodern fiction/intertextual fictions
  • the Canadian postmodern. Writing the postcolonial/transcultural subject in the Canadian space: postcolonial theory and the politics of the represented representing
  • deconstructing history and nation
  • writing back and beyond - cross/transcultural approaches to self-representation. Feminisms, postmodes and contemporary Canadian women's writings in context: the otherness of women
  • the subject(s) of feminist theory
  • gender and postmodes
  • Canadian women writers in context
  • views from elsewhere.

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  • NCID
    BA64821860
  • ISBN
    • 0773481737
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Lewiston
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 238 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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