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Autore: | Buss Helen M |
Titolo: | Memoirs from away : a new found land girlhood / / Helen M. Buss/Margaret Clarke |
Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Disciplina: | C818/.5409 |
Soggetto topico: | Women authors, Canadian - 20th century |
Soggetto geografico: | Newfoundland and Labrador Biography |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; People Live Here: Imagine That; War: Mother's Child; Peace: Daddy's Girl; Avalon: Knowing My Place; School: Losing Mary Lou; Finding Sally; History and Politics: My Brother Dave, His Friend Sid and Louis St. Laurent; Postscript |
Sommario/riassunto: | How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of multiple perspectives full of contradictory loyalties and obligations, of opposing histories and identities. For this woman, whose sense of a unified identity is so tenuous that she even writes under two names, writing memoirs becomes the way to bring together the diverse strands of her |
Titolo autorizzato: | Memoirs from Away |
ISBN: | 1-299-31299-3 |
0-88920-870-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910154730503321 |
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