Writing the Roaming Subject
Subtitle: The Biotext in Canadian Literature
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: October 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780802090126
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Canada; Canadian; Literary Criticism & Collections / Canadian; 20th century; Authors, Canadian; Autobiographical fiction, Canadian; Biography; Canadian literature; History and criticism; Minority authors
Description: "Engaging current debates within the studies of life writing and of the nation-state, Writing the Roaming Subject focuses on a group of Canadian writers who pose questions about cultural difference and national identity while writing about their own lives and their own experiences of displacement. Joanne Saul uses the term 'biotext' to describe the unique form of writing that challenges critical practices regarding both life writing and immigrant and ethnic minority writing by blurring the borders of biography, autobiography, history, fiction, and theory, as well as poetry, prose, and visual representation."--BOOK JACKET.