Violence and the female imagination : Quebec's women writers re-frame gender in North American cultures /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilbert, Paula Ruth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006
Temas:
Violence in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Violence in women > North America.
Canadian fiction (French) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction (French) > Québec (Province) > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction (French) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Violence dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Violence chez la femme.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
Violence in women.
North America.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Regendering violence and appropriating power : beyond the binary
  • Conceptualizing and contextualizing violence and gender : from "real life" to theory to literary representation
  • Living together in North America : Canada, Quebec, and the United States
  • Who's the subject now? : the female imagination and representations of sex and violence
  • Public and private violence : the novels of infanticide/filicide of Aline Chamberland and Suzanne Jacob
  • Regendering and female serial killing in the fiction of Helene Rioux, Anne Dandurand, and Claire Deþ
  • Women imitating men or the feminization of violence? : re-framing gender in North American cultures.

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