Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature

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Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature is written by Conny Steenman-Marcusse and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004490965 (ISBN 10) and 9789004490963 (ISBN 13).

This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, 1983). These three texts reveal definite problems in the formation of Canadian female identities, but they also revalorise the traditionally underprivileged halves of binary structures such as: female/male, other/self, body/intellect, subjectivity/objectivity, and Canada/imperial centres.