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Rimstead Roxanne <1953-> |
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Titolo |
Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / / Roxanne Rimstead |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 |
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©2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-03736-6 |
9786612037368 |
1-4426-7920-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (359 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Poor women - Canada |
Poverty - Canada |
Women in literature |
Poverty literature - Canada |
Livres numeriques. |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
e-books. |
Electronic books. |
Canada |
Kanada |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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-- 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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