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Author Gilbert, Paula Ruth.

Title Violence and the female imagination : Quebec's women writers re-frame gender in North American cultures / Paula Ruth Gilbert.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2006]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 426 pages : illustrations)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-412) and index.
Contents Regendering violence and appropriating power : beyond the binary -- Conceptualizing and contextualizing violence and gender : from "real life" to theory to literary representation -- Living together in North America : Canada, Quebec, and the United States -- Who's the subject now? : the female imagination and representations of sex and violence -- Public and private violence : the novels of infanticide/filicide of Aline Chamberland and Suzanne Jacob -- Regendering and female serial killing in the fiction of Helene Rioux, Anne Dandurand, and Claire Deþ -- Women imitating men or the feminization of violence? : re-framing gender in North American cultures.
Summary In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender.
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Subject Violence in literature.
Violence in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Violence in women -- North America.
Violence in women.
North America.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 0773530312 9780773530317
ISBN 9780773577107 (electronic book)
0773577106 (electronic book)
1282867555
9781282867550
0773530312 (bound)
9780773530317 (bound)