Writing a Politics of Perception : : Memory, Holography, and Women Writers in Canada / / Dawn Thompson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Thompson, Dawn,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Writing a Politics of Perception offers new approaches to five novels by women writing in Canada. Dawn Thompson analyses these works through an epistemological theory that shifts critical perspective in surprising ways.Under consideration are two classics of Canadian literature, Nicole Brossard's "Picture Theory" and Margaret Atwood's "Surfacing", as well as three lesser-known works: Marlene Nourbese Phillip's "Looking for Livingstone", Beatrice Culleton's "In Search of April Raintree", and Régine Robin's "La Québécoite". Thompson develops a theory of 'holographic memory,' in which texts are performances that invite constant revision, remodelling, and interaction between narrative, memory, and, potentially, reality. This theory is informed by de Lauretis's semiotics of subjectivity, Derrida's memoire radicale, and physicist David Bohm's theory of holographic quantum reality.Reading these works of Canadian literature through a theory of holographic memory, Thompson successfully combines literary and cultural studies without sacrificing one to the other. She adds to and creates an alliance between feminist, post-colonial, and marxist theory, furthering political work in each of these areas. The interdisciplinary nature of Writing a Politics of Perception will attract scholars and students in a variety of fields, including Canadian and Québec literature, comparative literature, women's studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Pre-holographic fragments: Configuring the memory theatre -- 1. Re-inventing the world: Calculating the con/volutional integrals of holography in Nicole Brossard's Picture Theory -- 2. ReSurfacing: Quantum visions of shamanic transformations -- 3. Looking for livingstone in Marlene Nourbese Philip's Looking for Livingstone -- 4. Typewriter as Trickster: Revisions of Beatrice Culleton's In Search of April Raintree -- 5. The wandering memory of Régine Robin's La Québécoite -- In/conclusion: A writing that is never whole -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index