Reading(s) from a distance
Subtitle: European perspectives on Canadian women's writing
By: Charlotte Sturgess and Martin Kuester, ed
Series: Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures -- v. 2; Studies in anglophone literatures and cultures -- v. 2.
Publisher: Wissner
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9783896396181
Subjects: Canadian Women authors; Congresses; History and criticism; Frauenliteratur
Other titles: European perspectives on Canadian women's writing
Notes: " ... a conference on European perspectives on Canadian women's writing that took place on October 28 and 29, 2005, at Strasbourg's Université Marc Bloch."--P. [7].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Europe and Canada: sightings, circulations and the relevance of perspective : Complex transactions: reading from a distance / Coral Ann Howells; title: Brand Canada: oppositional politics, global flows, and a people to come / Larissa Lai.  Art, landscape, discourse : Rock-a-bye baby, or tribal similarities revisited in Jane Urquhart's The stone carvers / Marta Dvorak; title: Multiple challenges: the Canadian artist story and gender / Reingard M. Nischik; title: The replication of romance in Jane Urquhart's Away / Claire Omhovère.  History, nation, representation : Women and war: representations of histories of violence in contemporary Canadian fiction / Brigitte Glaser; title: The return to the shtetl in contemporary Jewish Canadian women's writing: Lilian Nattal and Nancy Richler / Fabienne Quennet; title: Gender, genre, textual strategies : Women playing women in Sharon Pollock's Blood relations / Katalin Kürtösi; title: Writing women: masks and masquerade in short stories by Alice Munro / Anca-Raluca Radu; title: The "new sentimentalism" in recent Canadian fiction: the example of Ann-Marie MacDonald's The way the crow flies / Jutta Zimmermann.; title: Filiations, connections, métissages : Relations: mother countries and negotiating identities in contemporary Canadian women's fiction / Mary Condé; title: Maternal filiation and "métissage" in Suzanne Jacob's novels / Doris G. Eibl; title: Women's views of last men: Mary Shelley's The last man and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Barbara Korte.  Space, process, revision : Dis/re/location in No fixed address and Mavericks by Aritha van Herk / Patricia-Léa Paillot; title: Textual and urban spaces in Carol Shields's Unless / Caroline Rosenthal; title: Toronto in the global city: flows and places in Dionne Brand's What we all long for / Isabel Carrera Suárez; title: Ovid sailing the prairies: abandonment and the creative process in Carol Shields's Various miracles / Wolfram R. Keller.  Transcultural negotiations, textual configurations : Bridging the gap: transcultural figurations in novels by Lai, Goto, and Mayr / Charlotte Sturgess; title: Civil unrest: Larissa Lai and Rita Wong's Sybil unrest and the Canadian long poem tradition / Martin Kuester; title: The poetics of exile: a comparative study of the reception of Ying Chen's recent novels in Canada and in France / Christine Lorre.