Memory and identity in Canadian fiction : self-inventive storytelling in the works of five authors /
"Covering the works of Canadian authors Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood and Drew Hayden Taylor, the author explores how the themes of memory, storytelling and identity develop in their fiction. For the narrative voices in these works, the past is embedded in t...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Autobiographical memory and narrative identity
- Grounded in an ephemeral past : the works of Alistair Macleod
- Beyond self-representation : Michael Ondaatje's artists (Billy the Kid, Buddy Bolden, the English patient, and Anna)
- Speaking for a nation's people : Jane Urquhart's vision
- The weight of the wor(l)d : memory and survival in Margaret Atwood's The journals of Susanna Moodie and the Maddaddam trilogy
- Decolonizing through story : Drew Hayden Taylor "rights" the national narrative
- Evolving narratives and the power of story.
