New world myth
Subtitle: postmodernism and postcolonialism in Canadian fiction
By: Marie Vautier.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Montreal; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature) -- Canada; Postcolonialism
Description: "Marie Vautier's emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing illustrates how New World myth narrators question the past in the present and carry out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity.

Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the six works she examines, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 297-331.
Table of contents: title: Postmodern myth and post-European history : thematics and theory in the New World; title: Making myths, playing God : the narrator in Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes à Papineau and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-wood people; title: Reshaping religions, challenging cosmogonies : Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre and Joy Kogawa's Obasan; title: Magic realism and postcolonial challenges to history : George Bowering's Burning water and François Barcelo's La Tribu; title: Imagining myth in the New World : George Bowering's Burning Water and François Barcelo's  La Tribu.