LEADER 04260nam 2200721 450 001 9910455862203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-03736-6 010 $a9786612037368 010 $a1-4426-7920-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442679207 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004318 035 $a(OCoLC)666918101 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219254 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000308116 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11274959 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308116 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10258515 035 $a(PQKB)10354447 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600631 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255346 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671896 035 $a(DE-B1597)464812 035 $a(OCoLC)1013962626 035 $a(OCoLC)944177685 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442679207 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671896 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257585 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004318 100 $a20160922h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRemnants of nation $eon poverty narratives by women /$fRoxanne Rimstead 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2001. 210 4$d©2001 215 $a1 online resource (359 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-8270-X 311 $a0-8020-4494-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Disturbing Images -- $t1. 'Fictioning' a Literature -- $t2. Visits and Homecomings -- $t3. 'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor Housing -- $t4. Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor Women -- $t5. Subverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of Identity -- $t6. 'Organized Forgetting' -- $t7. 'Remnants of Nation' -- $t8. The Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism -- $tConclusion: Taking a Position -- $tAppendix: Outlawing Boundaries -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $a"The Remnants of Nation" is a ground breaking book that introduces a new genre called 'poverty narratives' to study literature and popular culture in the larger context of economic and literary disenfranchisement. While issues of race, gender, and sexuality are now circulating in literary studies and their 'constructedness' is being debated, the relations of class, poverty, and narrative have not been thoroughly examined until now. Here, poverty is treated 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 more ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada. Short stories, novels, autobiographies, and oral histories by Canadian women, including canonized writers such as Gabrielle Roy, Margaret Lawrence, and Alice Munro, are considered in addition to lesser known writers and ordinary women. Drawing on theoretical work from a wide range of disciplines, this book is a deeply radical reflection on how literature, popular culture, and academic discourse construct knowledge about the poor in wealthy countries like Canada and how the poor, in turn, can inform the way we think about nation, community, and national culture itself.Given the scope of the study, Rimstead's work will appeal not only to literary scholars and Canadian social historians, but to students and instructors of women's studies, cultural studies, and sociology.Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize, English Language, awarded by the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures 606 $aPoor women$zCanada 606 $aPoverty$zCanada 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aPoverty literature$zCanada 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoor women 615 0$aPoverty 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aPoverty literature 676 $a305.5/69/0971 700 $aRimstead$b Roxanne$f1953-$01026578 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455862203321 996 $aRemnants of nation$92441547 997 $aUNINA