Author : Cinda Gault
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ISBN 13 : 9780773411210
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (112 download)
Book Synopsis National and Female Identity in Canadian Literature, 1965-1980 by : Cinda Gault
Download or read book National and Female Identity in Canadian Literature, 1965-1980 written by Cinda Gault and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how national identity is depicted among Female Canadian authors in the mid to late twentieth century. It shows the traversal of realism and idealism, ethnicity, gender, and the construction of community in several novels. She argues that most critics emphasize the romance aspects of the novels, particularly because these are women authors, and ignore or overlook the realist dimensions to the stories. Doing this often creates a certain stereotype about women authors, and female identity, that poses issues related to oneOCOs national identity. While in the 1960OCOs-80OCOs it was not fashionable to talk about identity as constructed out of a confluence of several competing forces (economic, political, social, racial, gendered, religious), these authors were ahead of their time because this is precisely what they were doing."