Writing the Roaming Subject : : The Biotext in Canadian Literature / / Joanne Saul.
Engaging current debates within the studies of life writing and of the nation-state, Writing the Roaming Subject focuses on a group of Canadian writers who pose questions about cultural difference and national identity while writing about their own lives and their own experiences of displacement. Jo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Writing the Roaming Subject
- 1. Introducing the 'Biotext'
- 2. 'The shape of an unknown thing': Writing Displacement in Running in the Family
- 3. 'A story of listening way back in the body': Writing the Self in Ghost Works
- 4. Routes and Roots: The Auto/biographical Voices of Mothertalk
- 5. The Politics and Poetics of Identity: 'Faking it' in Diamond Grill
- Epilogue: (Still) Roaming
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index