Writing in the Father's House : : The Emergence of the Feminine in the Quebec Literary Tradition / / Patricia Smart.

Those who follow current trends in Canadian literature are aware that many of its most exciting and challenging new formats are coming from women writers of Quebec. Patricia Smart studies the historical roots of this development in her study of gender differences in Quebec literature. She offers a f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1991
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Author's note on the English translation
  • Introduction: Traces of a murder
  • 1. Angéline de Montbrun or the fall into writing
  • 2. Alphonsine Moisan's subversion: The voice of the repressed feminine in the novel of the land
  • 3. Opening the house to the Other: The novels of Germaine Guèvremont
  • 4. The defeated son and the rebellious daughter: The poetry of Saint-Denys Garneau and Anne Hébert
  • 5. When the voices of resistance become political: The Tin Flute or realism in the feminine
  • 6. The corpse under the foundations of the house: Violence to women in the contemporary Quebec novel
  • 7. What Oedipus sees: Hamlet's Twin and the impasse of 'his story'
  • 8. Reclaiming Electra: The writing of France Théoret
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX