Writing the Everyday: Women's Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Oct 13, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 312 pages
Prose works examined include Bernice Morgan's best-selling novel Random Passage, short stories by Helen Porter and Governor General's award-winner Joan Clark, as well as poetry by Mi'kmaq Elder Rita Joe and "People's Poet" Maxine Tynes, and the adult work of well-known children's author Sheree Fitch. Fuller demonstrates how these writers overturn regional stereotypes to present a complex and intriguing portrait of women's lives in Canada's most eastern provinces.
 

Contents

Investigating the Everyday
3
A Regional Business
30
Swimming with the Tide? Joan Clark and the Poetics
59
Creating textual communities
89
Two Newfoundland Narratives of the Everyday
116
The Politics of Community Poets
183
Caring Love and the Epistemic
223
Moving On
244
References
273
Index
289
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