| Description |
1 online resource (x, 348 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Disturbing Images -- Poor in the National Imaginary -- Power of Images -- Poverty Narratives: A New Category of Analysis -- 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 -- 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 -- Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poor women -- Canada.
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Poor women. |
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Canada. |
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Poverty -- Canada.
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Poverty. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Poverty literature -- Canada.
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Poverty literature. |
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Canadian prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Canadian prose literature -- Women authors. |
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Canadian prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Canadian prose literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Geschichte 1930-2000. |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rimstead, Roxanne, 1953- Remnants of nation. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 9780802044945 (DLC) 2001275151 (OCoLC)44943665 |
| ISBN |
9781442679207 (electronic book) |
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1442679204 (electronic book) |
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9780802044945 |
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0802044948 (bound) |
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080208270X (paperback) |
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9780802082701 |
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