Sharon Selby

Memory and Identity in Canadian Fiction

Self-Inventive Storytelling in the Works of Five Authors

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering the works of Canadian authors Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood and Drew Hayden Taylor, the author explores how the themes of memory, storytelling and identity develop in their fiction. For the narrative voices in these works, the past is embedded in the present and a wider cultural history is written over with personal significance. The act of storytelling shapes the characters' lives, letting them rewrite the past and be haunted by it. Storytelling becomes an existential act of everyday connection among ordinary people and daily (often unrecognized) acts of heroism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780786497522
• ISBN-10: 0786497521
• Artikelnr.: 51490283

Autorenporträt

Sharon Selby is a professor of literature and writing at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Autobiographical Memory and Narrative Identity
One. Grounded in an Ephemeral Past: The Works of Alistair MacLeod
Two. Beyond Self-Representation: Michael Ondaatje's Artists (Billy the
Kid, Buddy Bolden, the English patient, and Anna)
Three. Speaking for a Nation's People: Jane Urquhart's Vision
Four. The Weight of the Wor(l)d:¿Memory and Survival in Margaret Atwood's
The Journals of Susanna Moodie and the MaddAddam Trilogy
Five. Decolonizing Through Story: Drew Hayden Taylor "Rights" the National
Narrative
Conclusion: Evolving Narratives and the Power of Story
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index