The Oxford book of stories by Canadian women in English
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The Oxford book of stories by Canadian women in English
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Stories by Canadian women
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Includes and index
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Description
Since the mid-19th century, and most especially since the late 1960s, Canadian women have made a remarkable contribution to world literature. Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize; Margaret Atwood, Janette Turner Hospital, Anne Michaels, and Carol Shields were short listed for the Booker Award; Atwood and Michaels were nominated for the Orange. This anthology encompasses over a century and a half of writing by Canadian women. The stories collected here are intended to represent a cross-section of the best writing by women in the genre and demonstrate a wide range of styles from the realistic to the post-modern and experimental. All the stories are about women: in childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age; as part of a relationship, such as a daughter, a sister, a lover, a mother; and in a variety of social and political contexts. Though all authors are Canadian by birth or choice, nationality and gender have different meanings for each of them. But all write confidently and eloquently of their experience as women.
Table of Contents
- Catharine Parr Traill(1802-1899): The Bereavement
- E. Pauline Johnson ("Tekahionwake") (1861-1913): A Red Girl's Reasoning
- Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861-2911): The Pool in the Desert
- Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942): The Quarantine of Alexander Abraham's
- Ethel Wilson (1888-1980): We Have to Sit Opposite
- Sheila Watson (b.1909): Antigone
- Helen Weinzweig (b.1915): Causation
- P.K.Page (b.1916): Unless the Eye Catch Fire
- Elizabeth Spencer (b.1921): I, Maureen
- Mavis Gallant (b.1922): The Moslem Wife
- Margaret Laurence (1926-87): The Rain Child
- Rachel Wyatt (b.1929): The Day Marlene Dietrich Died
- Alice Munro (b.1931): The Albanian Virgin
- Jane Rule (b.1931): Lilian
- Marian Engel (1933-1985): Anita's Dance
- Joan Clark (b.1934): The Train Family
- Audrey Thomas (b.1935): Local Customs
- Carol Shields (b.1935): The Orange Fish
- Elisabeth Harvor (b.1936): There Goes the Groom
- Margaret Atwood (b.1939): Bluebeard's Egg
- Sharon Butala (b.1940): Fever
- Cynthia Flood (b.1940): My Father Took a Cake to France
- Beth Brant (Degonwadonti) (b.1941): A Long Story
- Emma Lee Warrior (b.1941): Compatriots
- Himani Bannerji (b.1942): On a Cold Day
- Sandra Birdsell (b.1942): Night Travellers
- Janette Turner Hospital (b.1942): Here and Now
- Isabel Huggan (b.1943): Celia Behind Me
- Meeka Walsh (b.1943): No More Denver Sandwiches
- Bonnie Burnard (b.1945): Crush
- Gail Scott (b.1945): Tall Cowboys and True
- Susan Swan (b.1945): The Man Doll
- Marlene Nourbese Philip (b.1947): Burn Sugar
- Margaret Gibson (b.1948): The Butterfly Ward
- Katherine Govier (b.1948): The King of Siam
- Judy Fong Bates (b.1949): My Sister's Love
- Connie Gault (b.1949): Inspection of a Small Village
- Jane Urquhart (b.1949): The Death of Robert Browning
- Anne Carson (b.1950): Water Margins: An Essay on Swimming By My Brother
- Barbara Gowdy (b.1950): Ninety-three Million Miles Away
- Elizabeth Hay (b.1951): The Friend
- Dionee Brand (b.1953): Photograph
- Janice Kulyk Keefer (b.1953): Going Over The Bars
- Judith Kalman (b.1954): The County of Birches
- Diane Schoemperlen (b.1954): Five Small Rooms (A Murder Mystery)
- Linda Svendsen (b.1954): White Shoulders
- Aritha Van Herk (b.1954): In Visible Ink
- Shree Ghatage (b.1957): Deafness Comes to Me
- Lynn Coady (b.1970): A Great Man's Passing.
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