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This study brings together analysis of novels by three contemporary North American women from diverse backgrounds in order to make contributions not only to gender studies, but also to narrative theory. Audrey Thomas and Daphne Marlatt are contemporary Anglo-Saxon Canadian writers whose work has been extensively analyzed within the field of feminist literary theory. Louise Erdrich is a best-selling American author of Chippewa and German-American descent. Marlatt's and Thomas's works have never been studied outside a Canadian context, and Erdrich's work has mostly been looked at in the context of ethnic women writers or Native American literature. By analyzing the works of these authors through the lenses of subjectivity, gender studies, and narratology, Caroline Rosenthal brings to light new perspectives on their writings. Although all three authors write metafictions that challenge literary realism and dominant views of gender, the forms of their counter-narratives vary. In her novel Intertidal Life, Thomas traces the disintegration of an identity through narrative devices that unearth ruptures and contradictions in stories of gender. In contrast, Marlatt, in Ana Historic, challenges the regulatory fiction of heterosexuality. She offers her protagonist a way out into a new order that breaks with the law of the father, creating a "monstrous" text that explores the possibilities of a lesbian identity.In her tetralogy of novels made up of Love Medicine, Tracks, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich resists definite readings of femininity altogether. By drawing on trickster narratives, she creates an open system of gendered identities that is dynamic and unfinalizable, positing the most fragmented worldview as the most enduring. By applying gender and narrative theory to nuanced analysis of the texts, Rosenthal's study elucidates the correlation between gender identity formation and narrative. Caroline Rosenthal is assistant professor of American Studies at the University o ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Resources for Feminist Research, published by O.I.S.E. on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1256 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Narrative in the Feminine: Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard. (Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus). (book review)
Author: Jennifer Henderson
Publication: Resources for Feminist Research (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: O.I.S.E.
Volume: 28Issue: 3-4Page: 190(4)

Article Type: Book Review

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These studies of Canadian authors fulfill a real need in the study of Canadian literature. Each monograph is a separately bound study of about 55 pages. Each contains a biography of the author, a description of the tradition and milieu that influenced the author, a survey of the criticism on the author, a comprehensive essay on all the author's key works, and a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary works. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ursula Franklin, Emily Murphy, Ellen Page, Muriel Duckworth, Irshad Manji, Agnes Macphail, Daphne Marlatt, Maude Barlow, Kathleen O'Grady, Nellie McClung, Rita MacNeil, Lisa Robertson, Lorraine Michael, Linda Hutcheon, The Famous Five, Savella Stechishin, Rae Luckock, Wendy McElroy, Maureen McTeer, Chaviva Hošek, Doris Anderson, Françoise Loranger, Louise McKinney, Margaret Mitchell, Judy Rebick, Thérèse Casgrain, Emily Stowe, Mary Ellen Smith, Margaret Christakos, Skyla Dawn Cameron, Carrie Derick, Jill Vickers, Svetlana Sotiroff MacDonald, Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, Mary Meigs, Eleanor Wachtel, Laura Sabia, Elizabeth Parker, Marian Engel, Roberta MacAdams, Alice Jamieson, Jerilynn Prior, Grace MacInnis, Mary Elizabeth Kinnear, Evelyn Lett, Isobel Warren, Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Henrietta Edwards, Hannah Gale, Yvette Boucher Rousseau, Christine Welsh, Francine Pelletier, Shannon Bell, Andrea O'Reilly, Betsy Struthers, Sandy Shreve, Martha Bielish, Donna Laframboise, Joanna Manning, Simonne Monet-Chartrand, Homa Arjomand,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 208. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ursula Martius Franklin, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born September 16, 1921 in Munich, Germany), is a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator who has taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. She is the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures, and The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks. Franklin is a practising Quaker and has been active in working on behalf of pacifist and feminist causes. She has written and spoken extensively about the futility of war and the connection between peace and social justice. Franklin has received nume...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1094203 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Daphne (Buckle) Marlatt, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 806 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Capilano College (North Vancouver), 2-3 / 1979, paperback, 100 pages, includes Ondaatje: Running In The Family & Marlatt: In the Month of Hungry Ghosts ... Read more