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This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a representative range of fictions in English by women from a variety of ethnocultural backgrounds, Howells examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. What does 'Refiguring Identities' mean for these writers, given their individual agendas and the multiple affiliation of any woman's identity construction? All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generation, and Howells argues that woman's fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change, introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multi-cultural Canada.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contexts
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reficuking Identities
- Chapter 2 "Don't ever ask for the true story": Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, and The Bund Assassin
- Chapter 3 Imimaii Disi o< a 1 ions: Alice Munro, HATESHiP, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
- Chapter 4 Identities Cut in Freestone: Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, and Larry's Party
- Chapter 5 How DO Wl KNOW Wl AK! WHO \\ 1 think we are?": ann-marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
- Chapter 6 Monsters and Monstrosity: Kirk: Sakamoto, Tin Eiectrical Fiud
- Chapter 7 Chancing the Boundaries of Identity: Siiani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
- Chapter 8 First Nations: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Hybridized Identities Writing on the Borders: Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cube for Death by Lightning
- Chapter 9 First Nations: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Hybridized Identities Writing in English, Dreaminc in Haisla: Eden Robinson, Monkcv Beach
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index