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Author Vautier, Marie, 1954-

Title New World myth : postmodernism and postcolonialism in Canadian fiction / Marie Vautier.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 339 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Postmodern myth and post-European history : thematics and theory in the New World -- Making myths, playing God : the narrator in Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes à Papineau and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-wood people -- Reshaping religions, challenging cosmogonies : Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre and Joy Kogawa's Obasan -- Magic realism and postcolonial challenges to history : George Bowering's Burning water and François Barcelo's La Tribu -- Imagining myth in the New World : George Bowering's Burning Water and François Barcelo's La Tribu.
Summary "In this Comparative study of six Canadian novels Marie Vautier examines reworkings of myth in the postcolonial context. While myths are frequently used in literature as transhistorical master narratives, she argues that the novels she examines destabilize the traditional function of myth in their self-conscious reexamination of historical events from a postcolonial perspective. Through detailed readings of Francois Barcelo's La Tribu, George Bowering's Burning Water, Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes a Papineau, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre, and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-Wood People, Vautier situates New World myth within the broader contexts of political history and of classical, biblical, and historical myths. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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Subject Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Canadian fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Postmodernism (Literature) -- Canada.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Canada.
Postcolonialism -- Canada.
Postcolonialism.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Vautier, Marie, 1954- New world myth. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1998 (DLC) 00502409
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