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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

Author : Laura K. Davis
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771121491
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada written by Laura K. Davis and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada. Focusing on Laurence’s published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of English Canada during the implementation of Canadian multiculturalism. Laurence’s Canadian characters are often divided subjects who are not quite members of their ancestral “imperial” cultures, yet also not truly “native” to their nation. Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada shows how Laurence and her characters negotiate complex tensions between “self” and “nation,” and argues that Laurence’s African and Canadian writing demonstrates a divided Canadian subject who holds significant implications for both the individual and the country of Canada. Bringing together Laurence’s writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the study of Canadian literature. The book is an original interpretation of Laurence’s work and reveals how she displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted through continually changing social relations.

A Place to Stand on

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Place to Stand on written by Margaret Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heart of a Stranger

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888644077
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Heart of a Stranger written by Margaret Laurence and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel was closely connected to Margaret Laurence’s creativity. Laurence realized that her travels, especially to Africa, provided her with new perspectives on Canada. Heart of a Stranger, originally published in 1976, is a fascinating travelogue chronicling Laurence's geographical journeys to many lands and historic places. She notes "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean both those voyages which are outer and those voyages which are inner." Laurence writes about her travels to Egypt in "Good Morning to the Grandson of Ramesses the Second," to Scotland in "Road from the Isles," and to Greece in "Sayonara, Agamemnon." In "The Very Best Intentions" Laurence sees herself as a "stranger in a strange land" in Ghana. She reflects on the many places she lived in "Put Out One or Two More Flags," "Down East," "The Shack" and "Where the World Began." Professor Nora Foster Stovel’s new introduction "Heart of a Traveller" explores how Laurence’s experiences in other lands influenced and shaped her writing. She contends that "Heart of a Stranger constitutes a concealed autobiography, for, in chronicling her literal life journey, Laurence also reveals her spiritual odyssey."

The Prophet's Camel Bell

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923886
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Prophet's Camel Bell written by Margaret Laurence and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, as a young bride, Margaret Laurence set out with her engineer husband to what was then Somaliland: a British protectorate in North Africa few Canadians had ever heard of. Her account of this voyage into the desert is full of wit and astonishment. Laurence honestly portrays the difficulty of colonial relationships and the frustration of trying to get along with Somalis who had no reason to trust outsiders. There are moments of surprise and discovery when Laurence exclaims at the beauty of a flock of birds only to discover that they are locusts, or offers medical help to impoverished neighbors only to be confronted with how little she can help them. During her stay, Laurence moves past misunderstanding the Somalis and comes to admire memorable individuals: a storyteller, a poet, a camel-herder. The Prophet’s Camel Bell is both a fascinating account of Somali culture and British colonial characters, and a lyrical description of life in the desert.

The Stone Angel

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923878
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Stone Angel written by Margaret Laurence and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation. In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant. "This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses."—Robertson Davies, New York Times "It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."—Honor Tracy, The New Republic "Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."—Atlantic "[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing—and the most touching—portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth."—Time "Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."—Granville Hicks, Saturday Review "The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old."—Paul Pickrel, Harper's

Into Africa with Margaret Laurence

Author : Fiona Sparrow
Publisher : ECW Press ; Don Mills, Ont. :$bDistributed by General Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550221695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Into Africa with Margaret Laurence written by Fiona Sparrow and published by ECW Press ; Don Mills, Ont. :$bDistributed by General Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Laurence is best known for her fiction set in Canada. Less well known is the work that resulted from the years she spent in Africa. Northern Somaliland in particular stimulated the deep understanding of human nature that permeates Laurence's subsequent work. Fiona Sparrow's in-depth study examines the foundations of Laurence's African writing, as well as Laurence's personal experiences in West Africa.

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802080905
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman written by Margaret Laurence and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The correspondence between Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman covers a period of 40 years, from 1947-1986, and encompasses the professional and personal developments, accomplishments, disappointments, and satisfactions of that period.

A Jest of God

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226469522
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book A Jest of God written by Margaret Laurence and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years Rachel Cameron has dreamed of leaving her small town and her manipulative mother; but duty and caution have kept her at home. At thirty-four, she finally confronts passion and death, and realizes that she cannot continue to sacrifice love and freedom, but needs both to survive. Rachel's passage towards self-discovery is one we will reognize - one that is exciting, sad, funny, and true.

The Diviners

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 1551992434
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Diviners written by Margaret Laurence and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel. This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers. The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance. The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.

Margaret Laurence

Author : Donez Xiques
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459714695
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Laurence written by Donez Xiques and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-09-24 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence's first commercially successful novel. Donez Xiques demonstrates the importance of Margaret Laurence's early work as a journalist in her development as a writer and covers her return to Canada from Africa in the late 1950s. She details the significance of Laurence's "Vancouver years" as well as the challenges of her year in London prior to settling at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire, when Laurence stood on the verge of success. The Margaret Laurence known to most people is a public figure of the 1960s and 1970s; matriarchal, matronly, and accomplished. The story of her early years in the harsh setting of the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s - years of drought and the Great Depression - and of her African years has never before been chronicled with the thoroughness and vividness that Xiques provides for the reader. Appended to this powerful new biography is a short story by Margaret Laurence that has never before been published and two other stories that have not been widely available. They indicate the range of her concerns and show a marked departure from her fiction in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories and A Bird in the House. Readers will benefit from the extensive research in this full and vibrant portrait of one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian literature.

Crossing the River

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the River written by Margaret Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crossing the River, thirteen Canadian and European scholars celebrate the life and work of Margaret Laurence. ". . . all students of Laurence's art should find this a useful, probing -casebook."--The Globe and Mail

Divining Margaret Laurence

Author : Nora Foster Stovel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773533761
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Divining Margaret Laurence written by Nora Foster Stovel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.

Divining Margaret Laurence

Author : Nora Foster Stovel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773577483
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Divining Margaret Laurence written by Nora Foster Stovel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Laurence is justly famous for her Manawaka cycle of Canadian novels, but her work extends from Canada to Africa and includes poetry and prose, children's and adult literature, memoir and travel-writing.

Margaret Laurence

Author : Donez Xiques
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550025791
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Laurence written by Donez Xiques and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-09-24 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Laurences literary growth, focusing on the years she spent in Africa. Includes a previously unpublished short story.

The Tomorrow-Tamer

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 0771046308
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Tomorrow-Tamer written by Margaret Laurence and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom. With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.

This Side Jordan

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923894
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book This Side Jordan written by Margaret Laurence and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of Africans and British, community and exile, set against the backdrop of the Ghanaian fight for independence: “A talented writer.”—The New York Times It is a time of change in West Africa, as the land known as the British Gold Coast is transformed into a new, independent nation known as Ghana. This lyrical, vivid novel follows multiple characters—a schoolteacher torn between his loyalty to his tribe and his hopes for his country’s future; a British business executive who distrusts Africans; a passionate nationalist—as they experience all the tensions of the time, the excitement, anticipation, and dread. A novel that confronts issues of race, gender, and the effects of colonialism, This Side Jordan is by Margaret Laurence, the author of The Stone Angel and a winner of two Governor General’s Awards, one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes. “Artistically and expertly written and constructed…unusual and noteworthy.”—Kirkus Reviews “A first novel of rare excellence.”—Mary Renault, Saturday Review “Highly recommended.”—Library Journal

A Bird in the House

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 0771046251
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Bird in the House written by Margaret Laurence and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up. In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl’s growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact. In this fourth book of the five-volume Manawaka series, Vanessa MacLeod takes her rightful place alongside the other unforgettable heroines of Manawaka: Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel, Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God, Stacey MacAindra in The Fire-Dwellers, and Morag Gunn in The Diviners.