Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / / Roxanne Rimstead

• Autore: Rimstead Roxanne <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001; ©2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/69/0971
• Soggetto topico: Poor women - Canada; Poverty - Canada; Women in literature; Poverty literature - Canada
• Soggetto geografico: Canada; Kanada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Livres numeriques.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; e-books.; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Remnants of nation
• ISBN: 1-282-03736-6; 9786612037368; 1-4426-7920-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780563703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II