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Autore |
Buss Helen M (Helen Margaret) |
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Titolo |
Memoirs from Away [[electronic resource] ] : A New Found Land Girlhood / / Helen M. BussMargaret Clarke |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-31299-3 |
0-88920-870-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Écrivains canadiens-anglais - 20e siecle |
Authors, Canadian (English) - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Biographies |
Newfoundland and Labrador Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; People Live Here: Imagine That; War: Mother's Child; Peace: Daddy's Girl; Avalon: Knowing My Place; School: Losing Mary Lou; Finding Sally; History and Politics: My Brother Dave, His Friend Sid and Louis St. Laurent; Postscript |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of multiple perspectives full of contradictory loyalties and obligations, of opposing histories and identities. For this woman, whose sense of a unified identity is so tenuous that she even writes under two names, writing memoirs becomes the way to bring together the diverse strands of her |
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