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Author Rimstead, Roxanne, 1953-

Title Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / Roxanne Rimstead
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 348 pages)
Contents Introduction: Disturbing Images -- The Poor in the National Imaginary -- The Power of Images -- Poverty Narratives: A New Category of Analysis -- The Gender of Poverty -- Fictioning' a Literature -- Beyond Literature: Ordinary Voices -- Populist Motives -- Cultural Critique as Social Therapy -- Testimony and Radical Knowledge -- Visits and Homecomings -- Susanna Moodie: Poverty and Vice -- Nellie McClung: Social Gospel Rescue -- Gabrielle Roy: Everyday Struggle as Resistance -- 'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor Housing -- A Genealogy of Poor Houses -- Alice Munro's Gaze -- from a Distance -- Homeplace and 'Bugs' -- Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor Women -- Anti-Theory, Anti-What? -- Subjectivities -- Theories of the Classed and Gendered Subject -- Understanding as Opposed to Mapping Subjectivities -- Subverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of Identity -- Cy-Thea Sand's Cultural Smuggling -- Maria Campbell's Halfbreed and Alternative Status-Honour Groups -- The Poor as Colonized Subjects -- Decolonizing Poor Subjects through Autobiography -- 'Organized Forgetting' -- On Autobiographical Memories of Poverty, Class, Gender, and Nation -- Poverty as Distant Landscape: Edna Jaques -- Class Travelling with Fredelle Bruser Maynard -- 'Remnants of Nation' -- Poverty and Nation as Reciprocal Constructions -- Saving the Nation: The Diviners -- Strategies of Containment and Exclusion -- Counter-national Testimonies -- The Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism
Summary Treating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Poor women -- Canada
Poverty -- Canada
Women in literature.
Poverty literature -- Canada
Canadian prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Canadian prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Canadian prose literature -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
Canadian prose literature
Canadian prose literature -- Women authors
Poor women
Poverty
Poverty literature
Women in literature
Armut Motiv
Frauenprosa
Écriture féminine.
Pauvre.
Pauvreté
Femme.
Thème littéraire.
Littérature canadienne.
Prose.
Histoire.
Canada
Kanada
Canada.
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001275151
ISBN 9781442679207
1442679204
1282037366
9781282037366
9786612037368
6612037369