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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"If feminism has always been characterized by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. As a carefully devised reading practice, metafeminism understands contemporary feminist literature and theory as both recalling and extending the tropes and politics of the past. In Cautiously Hopeful Marie Carrière brings together seemingly disparate writing by Anglo-Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois women authors under the banner of metafeminism. Familiarizing readers with major streams of feminist thought, including intersectionality, affect theory, and care ethics, Carrière shows how literary works by such authors as Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Naomi Fontaine, Larissa Lai, Tracey Lindberg, and Rachel Zolf, among others, tackle the entanglement of gender with race, settler-invader colonialism, heteronormativity, positionality, language, and the posthuman condition. Meanwhile tenable alliances among Indigenous women, women of colour, and settler feminist practitioners emerge. Carrière's tone is personal and accessible throughout - in itself a metafeminist gesture that both encompasses and surpasses a familiar feminist form of writing. Despite the growing anti-feminist backlash across media platforms and in various spheres of political and social life, a hopefulness animates this timely work that, like metafeminism, stands alert to the challenges that feminism faces in its capacity to effect social change in the twenty-first century."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Cautiously Hopeful -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada -- Envoi (un essai) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminism in literature.
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Feminism.
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Feminism -- Canada.
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Canadian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Feminist theory.
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Feminist theory -- Canada.
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Intersectionality (Sociology)
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feminism. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist |
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Canadian literature |
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Feminism |
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Feminism in literature |
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Feminist theory |
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Intersectionality (Sociology) |
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Canada https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkMHVW4rfVXPrhVP4VwG3 |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carrière, Marie J., 1971- Cautiously hopeful. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020 0228004225 9780228004226 (OCoLC)1143626512 |
| ISBN |
9780228004363 electronic book |
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0228004365 electronic book |
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9780228004356 electronic book |
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0228004357 electronic book |
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