Margin/Alias : : Language and Colonization in Canadian and Quebecois Fiction / / Sylvia Soderlind.
Two critical discourses central to current Canadian literary theory emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s: post-colonialism as a political paradigm and postmodernism as a literary practice in Canadian and Québécois fiction. Sylvia Söderlind considers the current debate about the relationship bet...
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Soderlind, Sylvia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Margin/Alias : Language and Colonization in Canadian and Quebecois Fiction / Sylvia Soderlind. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1991 1 online resource (278 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing in the Margin -- 1. Mapping the Territory -- 2. Beautiful Losers: The Novel as Cure -- 3. Trou de mémoire: Writing as Sacrament -- 4. The New Ancestors: The Writer as Sacrifice -- 5. L'Elan d'Amérique: The Novel as Echo Chamber -- 6. Gone Indian: The Novel as Rebus -- 7. Retracing the Map -- Conclusion: Reading in the Margin -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Two critical discourses central to current Canadian literary theory emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s: post-colonialism as a political paradigm and postmodernism as a literary practice in Canadian and Québécois fiction. Sylvia Söderlind considers the current debate about the relationship between these two discourses, and proposes a methodology that makes it possible to identify and distinguish between features pertaining to the two. The theoretical question she poses is whether and how it is possible determine the degree of what writers and critics variously call 'linguistic alienation,' 'alterity,' or 'marginality' in literary texts. Literary studies of marginality generally focus on theme, but Söderlind shows that a text's thematic claim to marginal status is not always corroborated by its textual strategies. Her proposed methodology is used to determine when and to what degree a text's claim to marginality is justified, as opposed to when it is used as an 'alias.' The author draws on the theory of 'minor literatures' outlined by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and, in particular, on their concepts of territoriality. Their theories are combined with methodologies more immediately applicable to literary texts, notably the semiotics of Yuri Lotman and Boris Uspenskij and the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida. The textual analyses of novels by Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, David Godfrey, André Langevin, and Robert Kroetsch yield some perhaps unexpected results, which are elucidated through a consideration of a wider corpus. This study opens up to an inquiry into the possibility of reading from the margin, a strategy solicited by certain kinds of postmodern and postcolonial texts. It concludes with some provocative questions about the postmodern critic's relationship to the literary text and its author. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Canadian fiction 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc. Colonies in literature. French-Canadian fiction 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc. Imperialism in literature. Literature and society Canada History 20th century. Marginality, Social, in literature. Social problems in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487580278 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487580278 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487580278.jpg |
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