Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / / Roxanne Rimstead |
Autore | Rimstead Roxanne <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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 genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-03736-6
9786612037368 1-4426-7920-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Disturbing Images -- 1. 'Fictioning' a Literature -- 2. Visits and Homecomings -- 3. 'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor Housing -- 4. Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor Women -- 5. Subverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of Identity -- 6. 'Organized Forgetting' -- 7. 'Remnants of Nation' -- 8. The Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism -- Conclusion: Taking a Position -- Appendix: Outlawing Boundaries -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455862203321 |
Rimstead Roxanne <1953->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / / Roxanne Rimstead |
Autore | Rimstead Roxanne <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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 genere / forma |
Livres numeriques.
Criticism, interpretation, etc. e-books. Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-03736-6
9786612037368 1-4426-7920-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780563703321 |
Rimstead Roxanne <1953->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / / Roxanne Rimstead |
Autore | Rimstead Roxanne <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 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 genere / forma |
Livres numeriques.
Criticism, interpretation, etc. e-books. Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-03736-6
9786612037368 1-4426-7920-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813054503321 |
Rimstead Roxanne <1953->
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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