The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada

Linda M. Morra

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000811230
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries. From early colonial texts by Frances Brooke, to settler texts by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, to more contemporary texts by Jane Rule, Alice Munro, Joshua Whitehead, Ivan Coyote, and others, this volume will introduce readers to how gender and sexuality have been variably conceived in Canada and the work they perform across multiple genres. Calling upon recent currents of gender theory and examining the composition, structure, and history of selected literary texts—that is, the "literary sediments" that have accumulated over centuries—readers of this book will explore how those representations shift over time. By examining literature in Canada in relation to crucial cultural, political, and historical contexts, readers will better apprehend why that literature has significantly transformed and broadened to address racialized and fluid identities that continue to challenge and disrupt any stable notion of gendered and sexualized identity today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Archaeologies of Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada
• 2 Frances Brooke and the English Heroine of the Novel of Sensibility
• 3 Performances of Settler Femininity: Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
• 4 Ralph Connor and the Narrative of Muscular Christianity
• 5 Georgina SIME, Pauline Johnson, and the Rise of the New Woman
• 6 Jane Rule and the Development of Lesbian Literature in Canada
• 7 Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and the (Post)Modern Woman
• 8 Recuperating Indigenous and Racialized Masculinities
• 9 “Moving Over”: Racialized Contemporary Womanhood
• 10 Transgender, Two Spirit, and Gender-Nonconforming Literatures in Canada
• Index