04339nam 2200757 450 991045637920332120200520144314.01-281-99167-897866119916781-4426-8373-210.3138/9781442683730(CKB)2430000000001979(OCoLC)244768267(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218931(SSID)ssj0000313735(PQKBManifestationID)11254642(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313735(PQKBWorkID)10378324(PQKB)11250477(CaBNvSL)thg00601070 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255026(MiAaPQ)EBC4672277(DE-B1597)465142(OCoLC)944177219(OCoLC)999378955(DE-B1597)9781442683730(Au-PeEL)EBL4672277(CaPaEBR)ebr11257951(OCoLC)958562741(EXLCZ)99243000000000197920160915h20062006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWriting the roaming subject the biotext in Canadian literature /Joanne SaulToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2006.©20061 online resource (184 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-6627-5 0-8020-9012-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing the Roaming Subject -- 1. Introducing the 'Biotext' -- 2. 'The shape of an unknown thing': Writing Displacement in Running in the Family -- 3. 'A story of listening way back in the body': Writing the Self in Ghost Works -- 4. Routes and Roots: The Auto/biographical Voices of Mothertalk -- 5. The Politics and Poetics of Identity: 'Faking it' in Diamond Grill -- Epilogue: (Still) Roaming -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexEngaging current debates within the studies of life writing and of the nation-state, Writing the Roaming Subject focuses on a group of Canadian writers who pose questions about cultural difference and national identity while writing about their own lives and their own experiences of displacement. Joanne Saul uses the term 'biotext' to describe the unique form of writing that challenges critical practices regarding both life writing and immigrant and ethnic minority writing by blurring the borders of biography, autobiography, history, fiction and theory, as well as poetry, prose, and visual representation.In her readings of selected contemporary Canadian biotexts - including Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Daphne Marlatt's Ghost Works, Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk, and Fred Wah's Diamond Grill - Saul suggests that by crossing generic boundaries, these works illuminate the complex relationships between language, place, and self as they are manifested in textual form. Writing the Roaming Subject explores issues of identity formation, representation, and resistance in Canada and suggests that these are particularly crucial questions during a period of Canadian literary history when so many writers are insisting on new, more diverse cultural performances that resist the pull of the national imaginary.Canadian literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismAutobiographical fiction, CanadianHistory and criticismAuthors, Canadian20th centuryBiographyHistory and criticismAutobiographyMinority authorsEthnicity in literatureElectronic books.Canadian literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Autobiographical fiction, CanadianHistory and criticism.Authors, CanadianHistory and criticism.AutobiographyMinority authors.Ethnicity in literature.810.9809045Saul Joanne1969-1042239MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456379203321Writing the roaming subject2466322UNINA