Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship - Couverture souple

Morra, Linda M.

9781442626423: Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women's Authorship

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ISBN 10 : 1442626429 ISBN 13 : 9781442626423

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2014

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Calling upon the archives of Canadian writers E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), Emily Carr (1871-1945), Sheila Watson (1909-1998), Jane Rule (1931-2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip (1947- ), Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women's archives have been uniquely conceptualized in scholarly discourses and shaped by socio-political forces. She also provides a framework for understanding the creative interventions these women staged to protect their records. Through these case studies, Morra traces the influence of institutions such as national archives and libraries, and regulatory bodies such as border service agencies on the creation, presentation, and preservation of women's archival collections. The deliberate selection of the five literary case studies allows Morra to examine changing archival practices over time, shifting definitions of nationhood and national literary history, varying treatments of race, gender, and sexual orientation, and the ways in which these forces affected the writers' reputations and their archives. Morra also productively reflects on Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever and postmodern feminist scholarship related to the relationship between writing, authority, and identity to showcase the ways in which female writers in Canada have represented themselves and their careers in the public record.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Linda M. Morra is an associate professor in the Department of English at Bishop's University and the current president of the Quebec Writers' Federation. She edited the collected letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth published with the University of Toronto Press (2006), and edited and annotated Jane Rule's Taking my Life (2011).

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