Violence and the female imagination : Quebec's women writers re-frame gender in North American cultures /
In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Rut...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2006
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 426 pages : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-412) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780773577107 0773577106 1282867555 9781282867550 |