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Women's writing in Canada / Patricia Demers.

by Demers, Patricia, 1946-

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University of Toronto Press, 2019.

810.99287 D376w

Canadian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Canadian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

9780802095015 (pbk.)

xiv, 342 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-318) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imag(in)ing the national terrain from the mid-twentieth century to the sesquicentennial. Approaching national literature -- Women in the linked roles of reading and writing -- The The commissions: From Massey to Truth and reconciliation -- From Total refusal and Quiet revolution to cultural accomodation -- New images of movement and diversity -- Fiction. Prospects at Mid-Century -- Wrestling with the Strictures of Marriage and Family -- Revolutionary Talents and Experiments -- Flowering Careers in the Sixties -- Trajectories of Celebrity: Munro and Atwood -- The Tangle of Domesticity and Independence -- Rhizomes of Sexuality, Nation, race, and Ethnicity -- Extensions in 2017 -- Film. Original Screenplays -- Adaptations of Women's Writing in Canada -- Documentaries -- Poetry. Jaques, Livesay, Waddington, and Page: "fired in the kiln of endurance" -- P.K. Page: Onlooker and participant -- Wilkinson, Brewster, Avison, and Macpherson: "clearing the hurdles of sleep" -- MacEwen and Atwood: "the slow striptease of our concepts" -- Webb, Lowther, Marlatt, and Brossard: "the way any of us are tangled in the past" -- Tostevin, Brand, Halfe, and Dumont: "their fragile, fragile symmetries of gain and lost" -- Crozier, Moure, Zwicky, Carson, Michaels, Bolster, and Shraya: "the truth likes to hide/ out in the open" -- Karen Solie: "poetic hipster" -- Music. Folk singers reclaiming traditions -- Punk, pop and country -- Adult contemporary styling -- Drama. Ringwood: Canadian drama's foremother -- Joudry, Henry and Simons: Examining emotions -- Pollock and Bolt: Re-viewing history and power politics -- Sharon Pollock: "meaning through the making of theatre" -- Ritter, Glass, Clark and Lill: Enacting vulnerabilities -- Thompson and MacDonald: Performing marginalization and shape shifting -- Judith Thompson: "through the looking glass, darkly" -- Gale, Sears, Mojica, Cheechoo, Nolan, and Clements: Recording "Documentaries" -- MacLeod, Moscovitch, and Chatterton: Exploring impasses -- Writing for children. Fiction about children and young adults -- Other times and space of fantasy -- Illustrated narratives -- Non-fiction. Memoirists and autobiographers -- Commentators on our world -- Advisers and observers -- Conclusion.

"Spanning the period from the Massey Commission to the present and reflecting on the media of print, film, and song, this study attends to the burgeoning energy of women writers across genres. It explores how their work interprets our national story. The questioning, disruptive feminist practice of their fiction, filmmaking, poetry, song-writing, drama, and non-fiction reveals the tensions of colonial society at the same time as it transforms cultural life in Canada. Women's Writing in Canada resurrects foremothers who were active before and after the mid-century--Ethel Wilson, Gabrielle Roy, Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Dorothy Livesay, and P.K. Page--as well as such forgotten writers as Grace Irwin, Patricia Blondal, and Edna Jaques. Its breadth extends to the contemporary voices and influences of novelists Tracey Lindberg and Heather O'Neill, poets Marilyn Dumont and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, playwrights Hannah Moscovitch and Anna Chatterton, and filmmakers Sarah Polley and Mina Shum. Writing for children as well as memoirs, autobiographies, comic books, and cookbooks illustrate the wide and impressive range of women's talents."--From publisher.

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