Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women /

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Treating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rimstead, Roxanne, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.
Temas:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1930-2000.
Poor women > Canada.
Poverty > Canada.
Women in literature.
Poverty literature > Canada.
Canadian prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Canadian prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian prose literature > History and criticism.
Femmes pauvres > Canada.
Pauvreté > Canada.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Pauvreté > Documentation > Canada.
Écrits de femmes canadiens > Histoire et critique.
Prose canadienne > Histoire et critique.
Prose canadienne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
Canadian prose literature
Canadian prose literature > Women authors
Poor women
Poverty
Poverty literature
Women in literature
Armut > Motiv
Frauenprosa
Écriture féminine.
Pauvre.
Pauvreté
Femme.
Thème littéraire.
Littérature canadienne.
Prose.
Histoire.
Canada
Kanada
Canada.
Electronic books.
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Disturbing Images
  • The Poor in the National Imaginary
  • The Power of Images
  • Poverty Narratives: A New Category of Analysis
  • The Gender of Poverty
  • Fictioning' a Literature
  • Beyond Literature: Ordinary Voices
  • Populist Motives
  • Cultural Critique as Social Therapy
  • Testimony and Radical Knowledge
  • Visits and Homecomings
  • Susanna Moodie: Poverty and Vice
  • Nellie McClung: Social Gospel Rescue
  • Gabrielle Roy: Everyday Struggle as Resistance
  • 'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor Housing
  • A Genealogy of Poor Houses
  • Alice Munro's Gaze
  • from a Distance
  • Homeplace and 'Bugs'
  • Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor Women
  • Anti-Theory, Anti-What?
  • Subjectivities
  • Theories of the Classed and Gendered Subject
  • Understanding as Opposed to Mapping Subjectivities
  • Subverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of Identity
  • Cy-Thea Sand's Cultural Smuggling
  • Maria Campbell's Halfbreed and Alternative Status-Honour Groups
  • The Poor as Colonized Subjects
  • Decolonizing Poor Subjects through Autobiography
  • 'Organized Forgetting'
  • On Autobiographical Memories of Poverty, Class, Gender, and Nation
  • Poverty as Distant Landscape: Edna Jaques
  • Class Travelling with Fredelle Bruser Maynard
  • 'Remnants of Nation'
  • Poverty and Nation as Reciprocal Constructions
  • Saving the Nation: The Diviners
  • Strategies of Containment and Exclusion
  • Counter-national Testimonies
  • The Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism.

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