Paths of desire
Subtitle: images of exploration and mapping in Canadian women's writing
By: Marlene Goldman.
Series: Theory/culture; Theory/culture series.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Geographical discoveries in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Landscape in literature; Desire in literature; Maps in literature
Description: Marlene Goldman posits intriguing connections between the act of map-making, postmodern theory, and female identity in this study of the experimental works of five Canadian women writers: Intertidal Life by Audrey Thomas, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World by Susan Swan, Ana Historic by Daphne Marlatt, The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart and the fictions of Aritha van Herk.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.