Auto/Biography in Canada

Critical Directions
Herausgeber: Rak, Julie

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Produktbeschreibung

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on critical approaches, the essays explore auto/biography as a discourse about identity and representation in the context of numerous disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada looks at how life narratives are made in Canada . Originating from literary studies, history, and social work, the essays in this collection cover topics that range from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper death notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, Grey Owl and authenticity, France Théoret and autofiction, and a new reading of Stolen Life, the collaborative text by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak's useful "big picture" introduction traces the history of auto/biography studies in Canada. While the contributors chart disciplinary shifts taking place in auto/biography studies, their essays are also part of the ongoing scholarship that is remaking ways to understand Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780889204782
• ISBN-10: 0889204780
• Artikelnr.: 42342632

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions, edited by Julie Rak
Introduction-Widening the Field: Auto/biography Theory and Criticism in
Canada Julie Rak
Generations of the Holocaust in Canadian Auto/biography Susanna Egan and
Gabriele Helms
The Modern Hiawatha: Grey Owl's Construction of His Aboriginal Self
Albert Braz
"This is my memory, a fact": The Many Mediations of Mothertalk: Life
Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka Sally Chivers
Auto/biographical Jurisdictions: Collaboration, Self-Representation, and
the Law in Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman Deena Rymhs
Biographical versus Biological Lives: Auto/biography and Non-Speaking
Persons Labelled Intellectually Disabled Ann Fudge Schormans
A Transfer Boy: About Himself Ljiljana Vuletic and Michel Ferrari
Creativity, Cultural Studies, and Potentially Fun Ways to Design and
Produce Autobiographical Material from Subalterns' Locations Si Transken
Playing at Pretending: Difference and Conformity in Queer Canadian
Autobiography Andrew Lesk
Writing Lives in Death: Canadian Death Notices as Auto/biography Laurie
McNeill
(Un)tying the Knot of Patriarchy: Agency and Subjectivity in the
Autobiographical Writings of France Théoret and Nelly Arcan Barbara
Havercroft
Auto/Bio/Fiction in Migrant Women's Writings in Québec: Régine Robin's La
Québécoite and L'immense fatigue des pierres Yuko Yamade
"The ensign of the mop and the dustbin": The Maternal and the Material in
Auobiographical Writings by Larua Goodman Salverson and Nellie McClung
Wendy Roy
Contributors
Albert Braz is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the
University of Alberta, specializing in Canadian literature in its
inter-American contexts. He is the author of The False Traitor: Louis Reil
in Canadian Culture (2003).
Sally Chivers is an assistant professor of Canadian studies and English at
Trent University. She is the author of From Old Woman to Older Women:
Contemporary Culture and Women's Narrative (2003). Her current research
interests include Canadian cultural depictions of aging and disability.
Susanna Egan teaches in the department of English at UBC, and has written
on various aspects of autobiography. Her most recent book is Mirror Talk:
Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography.
Michel Ferrari, associate professor at the University of Toronto in the
Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, is interested in
the relations between moral identity and ethical expertise. More generally,
his research explores the relations between personal identity and the
development of particular forms of expertise these identities require.
Ann Fudge Schormans is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Social Work,
University of Toronto. Ann's involvement with people with intellectual
dis/Abilities spans her professional career as a social worker in both the
Community Living and Child Welfare sectors, as well as foster and adoptive
parents.
Barbara Havercroft, associate professor of French and Comparative
Literature at the University of Toronto, has published extensivley on
recent French, Québécois, and German autobiographical writings, on feminism
and post-modernism, and on literary theory. The author of Oscillation and
Subjectivity: Problems of Enunciation in the Novels of Robbe-Grillet,
Sarraute, and Johnson (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press), she is
completing a book on gender and genre in contemporary life writing.
Gabriele Helms tuaght in the Department of English at UBC until her death
in December 2004. She has published on auto/biography and Canadian
literature; she is the author of Challenging Canada: Dialogism and
Narrative Techniques in Canadian Novels (2003). The essay collection
Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions is dedicated to her memory.
Andrew Lesk has published on Sinclair Ross, Leonard Cohen, John Glassco,
Jack Hodgins, Chinua Achebe, queer theory, and the public function of
universities. He has given papers on Todd Haynes, Shyam Selvadurai, Rider
Haggard, Willa Cather, gay studies and homophobia, the culture industry,
and Hollywood film. He teaches Canadian literature at the University of
Toronto.
Laurie McNeill is currently on a SSHRC post-doctorla fellowship at the
University of Michigan. She has published on World War II civilian
internment diaries from the South Pacific, and on web-diaries as life
writing.
Julie Rak is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film
Studies at the University of Alberta. Her recent publications include
essays about auto/biography in Canadian and international journals and book
collections, and the book Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical
Discourse (University of British Columbia Press, 2004).
Deena Rymhs is an assistant professor of English at St. Francis Xavier
University. She has just completed her dissertation on the experience of
incarceration in First Nations writing. Her work has appeared in Canadian
Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, Genre, and Studies in American
Indian Literature.
Wendy Roy is an assistant professor of English at the University of
Saskatchewan. Her research is on Canadian women's life writing, especially
travel writing, and she has previously published articles on Margaret
Laurence, Anna Jameson, and Carol Shields.
Si Transken has a doctorate in equity studies from the University of
Toronto and is now completing an MA in First Nations studies and creative
writing at UNBC. She also teaches at the University of Northern British
COlumbia. Her courses include Women and Social Policy, Family Counseling,
and Social Work with Victims of Abuse. She has had work published in books
such as Feminist Utopias, Care and Consequence, Caring Communities, and
Equity and Justice. Her poetry has been published in Canadian Women's
Studies, Azure, and Reflections on Water.
Ljiljana Vuletic is a doctoral candidate in applied cognitive science at
the University of Toronto. For the past twenty years, she has been involved
in working on assessment and interventions with children with autism. Her
main research interests are cognitive development and early identification
of children with autism.
Yuko Yamade received a PhD Littérature at L'Université de Montréal. She
previously taught at L'Université de Montréal and the University of
Florida. She is currently doing postdoctoral research at Meiji University
in Tokyo, Japan, and specializes in migrant women's writings in Japan,
Germany, France, and Quebec.