Description |
1 online resource (viii, 321 pages) : illustrations |
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- pt. 1. Doris Lessing : Spiraling the waves of detachment -- 1. "Sleepers wake" : the surfacing of buried grief in Doris Lessing's Love, Again, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, and Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters / Virginia Tiger -- 2. Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- 3. Through the "Wall" : crone journeys of enlightenment and creativity in the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Keri Hulme, and other women writers / Sharon R. Wilson -- pt. 2. Margaret Atwood : doubling back through the labyrinth -- 4. Margaret Atwood's The blind assassin as spiritual adventure / Earl G. Ingersoll -- 5. "And they went to bury her" : Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride / Debrah Raschke and Sarah Appleton -- 6. Atwood's space crone : alchemical vision and revision in Morning in the Burned House / Kathryn VanSpanckeren |
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pt. 3. Spiritual adventuring by other contemporary women writers -- 7. "Mirror, mirror on the wall" : Fay Weldon's elder fairy tale / Roberta Rubenstein -- 8. On the road again : Aritha Van Herk's No Fixed Address and Suzette Mayr's The Widows / Sally Chivers -- 9. So much depends upon a ya-ya scrapbook : trauma, figured and reconfigured / Sandra Singer -- 10. Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush : a native woman elder's liberatory and integrative storytelling turn / Susan Berry Brill De Ramírez -- 11. "Soul murder" and rebirth : trauma, narrative, and imagination in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night / Jeanie E. Warnock -- Notes on contributors -- Index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
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Frauenliteratur -- Englisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Ältere Frau -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung. idszbz |
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Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Canadian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Women and literature.
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Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.
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Older women in literature.
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Old age in literature.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
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American fiction -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
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Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
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Canadian fiction -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Women authors
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American fiction -- Themes, motives
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American fiction
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American fiction -- Women authors
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Canadian fiction
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Canadian fiction -- Women authors
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Old age in literature
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Older women in literature
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Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
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Women and literature
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Fictie.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Ouderdom.
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Roman -- amerikanischer -- Motiv -- Alter -- Frau.
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Roman -- englischer -- Motiv -- Alter -- Frau.
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Alter -- Frau -- Motiv -- Roman -- amerikanischer.
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Alter -- Frau -- Motiv -- Roman -- englischer.
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Frauenliteratur -- Amerikanisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Ältere Frau -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Ältere Frau -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Ältere Frau -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Amerikanisch -- Geschichte -- 1970-2007 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg
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LC no. |
2007021566 |
ISBN |
9780814272114 |
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0814272118 |