LEADER 04876nam 2200553 450 001 9910795219903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7735-5265-0 010 $a0-7735-5266-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773552654 035 $a(CKB)4340000000208988 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5106960 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11455525 035 $a(OCoLC)1007071760 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/9m21v6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5106960 035 $a(DE-B1597)657218 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773552654 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000208988 100 $a20171117h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWriting herself into being $eQuebec women's autobiographical writings from Marie de l'Incarnation to Nelly Arcan /$fPatricia Smart 210 1$aMontreal, [Quebec] :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (322 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-7735-5118-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAuthor's Note on the English Translation -- $tIntroduction -- $tLiving and Writing for God: The Mystical Era -- $tA Place for the Spirit: Canada as Dream and Reality in the Autobiographical Writings of the Women of New France -- $tWriting the Annihilation of Self: Marie de l'Incarnation -- $tWriting for the Other: Correspondences, 1748?1862 -- $tWriting ?To Tell You I'm Here?: The Correspondence of Élisabeth Bégon -- $tOne Is Not Born a Mother, One Becomes One: Julie Papineau's Journey -- $tWriting for Oneself: The Private Diary, 1843?1964 -- $tGirls' Diaries: Steps towards an Autonomous Self -- $tTwo Nineteenth-Century Rebels: Henriette Dessaulles and Joséphine Marchand -- $tDiaries of ?Queens of the Hearth? -- $tWriting Oneself into History: The Age of Autobiography, 1965?2012 -- $tClaire Martin: The Courage of the Autobiographical ?I? -- $tGrowing Up Poor in Montreal, 1930?1960: Lise Payette, France Théoret, Denise Bombardier, Marcelle Brisson, and Adèle Lauzon -- $tGiving Birth to Oneself in Writing: The Struggle with the Mother -- $tTrapped in the Image: Nelly Arcan's Autofictions -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWINNER - Prix du livre d?Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women?s struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical fiction, as well as the annals of religious communities, letters, and a number of published and unpublished diaries by girls and women, to reveal a greater range of women?s experiences than proscribed, generalized roles. Through close readings of these texts Smart uncovers the authors? perspectives on events such as the 1837 Rebellion, the Montreal cholera epidemic of 1848, convent school education, the struggle for women?s rights in the early twentieth century, and the Quiet Revolution. Drawing attention to the individuality of each writer while situating her within the social and ideological context of her era, this book further explores the ways women and girls reacted to, and often rebelled against, the constraints imposed on them by both Church and state. Written in a clear and compelling narrative style that brings women?s voices to life, Writing Herself into Being ? the author?s own translation of her award-winning French-language book De Marie de l?Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se dire, se faire par l?écriture intime (Boréal, 2014) ? offers a new and gendered view of various periods in Quebec history. 606 $aFrench-Canadian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench-Canadian diaries$zQue?bec (Province)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature 607 $aQue?bec (Province)$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aFrench-Canadian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench-Canadian diaries$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a840.9928709714 700 $aSmart$b Patricia$0758241 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795219903321 996 $aWriting herself into being$93713977 997 $aUNINA