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America Unbound
This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes’s Terra Nostra , Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues , and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead . The encyclopedic novel has particular generic characteristics that serve these writers as a vehicle for the reincorporation of hemispheric histories. Starting with an examination of Moby-Dick as precursor, Barrenechea shows how this narrative genre allows Fuentes, Poulin, and Silko to reflect the interconnected world of today, as well as to dramatize indigenous and colonial values in their narratives. His close attention to written documents, visual representations, and oral traditions in these encyclopedic novels sheds light on their comparative cultural relations and the New World from pole to pole. This study amplifies the scope of “America” across cultures and languages, time and tradition.
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Violence and the Female Imagination
Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such \"tough\" women may be mocking men in their \"macho\" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are \"feminizing\" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture.
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Des fictions sans fiction ou le partage du réel
Notre époque a soif de réalité et les médias se chargent bien volontiers de l’étancher. À travers le fouillis des reality shows, des blogues et des confessions de toute nature, comment l’oeuvre littéraire arrive-t-elle à tirer son épingle du jeu, à fonder son droit à parler du monde comme il va ? Il semble que la littérature, au cours des dernières décennies, ait renoué tant bien que mal avec l’idée de s’inscrire de plain-pied dans le réel, s’attachant à surmonter les clivages entre document et fiction, archive et récit, pour parvenir à une vérité qui n’est soumise ni aux clichés du roman ni à l’épreuve d’un réel impossible. Entre « fiction sans fiction » et non-fiction tentée par les artifices de l’imaginaire, les oeuvres étudiées ici cherchent à retrouver quelque pertinence sociale en réinventant les modalités de ce réalisme qui a fait de la littérature un fantastique instrument de connaissance de l’homme et du monde. Robert Dion est professeur au Département d’études littéraires de l’Université du Québec à Montréal et membre du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ).
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Discoveries of the Other
Winfried Siemerling examines alterity in the work of four innovative postmodern authors, exploring self and other as textual figures of the unknown. Subjectivity appears mediated, in these texts, by a self-reflexive work in language, seeking to grasp itself in relation to a significant and often fascinating, but also enigmatic, other.
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