Title: Acts of brief authority
Subtitle: A Critical Assessment of 20th-Century Newfoundland Authors
First published: 1994
Description: Includes critical commentary of Newfoundland authors Anastacia English, Margaret Duley, Gordon Pinsent, Harold Horwood, Bill Rowe, M.T. Dohaney, Bill Gough, and Wayne Johnston. Incorporates Michel Foucault's perspective on power relations and suggests that Newfoundland writers perceive power stuctures imposed on Newfoundland societies both from within and outside those societies and suggest ways to restructure and overcome them.
Subjects: Canadian fiction, Newfoundland fiction, History and criticism, Canadian postcolonial theory, Canadian cultural studies
Places: Newfoundland
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS8199.5.N5 S87 1994