Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / Roxanne Rimstead
- Author
- Rimstead, Roxanne, 1953-
- Published
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
- Copyright Date
- ©2001
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 348 pages)
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- 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.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1930-2000
- Poor women—Canada
- Poverty—Canada
- Women in literature
- Poverty literature—Canada
- Canadian prose literature—Women authors—History and criticism
- Canadian prose literature—20th century—History and criticism
- Canadian prose literature—History and criticism
- Femmes pauvres—Canada
- Pauvreté—Canada
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Pauvreté—Documentation—Canada
- Écrits de femmes canadiens—Histoire et critique
- Prose canadienne—Histoire et critique
- Prose canadienne—20e siècle—Histoire et critique
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Poverty & Homelessness
- LITERARY CRITICISM—Canadian
- Canadian prose literature
- Canadian prose literature—Women authors
- Poor women
- Poverty
- Poverty literature
- Armut
- Frauenprosa
- Écriture féminine
- Pauvre
- Pauvreté
- Femme
- Thème littéraire
- Littérature canadienne
- Prose
- Histoire
- Canada
- Kanada
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781442679207 (electronic bk.)
1442679204 (electronic bk.)
1282037366
9781282037366
9786612037368
6612037369
9780802044945
0802044948 (bound)
080208270X (pbk.)
9780802082701 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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