Includes bibliographical references and index.

INTRODUCTION -- COLLECTIVE VOICE: HISTORY AS SUBJECT -- Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms: Tracks in a Textual Landscape -- Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces: Geo-Logical Retrievals -- ROUGH CROSSINGS: DISPLACEMENTS, DESTINATIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS -- Dionne Brand, Sans Souci and In Another Place, Not Here: a Poetics of Migrancy -- Suzette Mayr, The Widows: Kanada/Canada, Bridging the Gap -- THE FEMALE SUBJECT AS "OTHER": SYMBOLIC LOCATIONS AND DISLOCATIONS -- Evelyn Lau, Other Women and Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid: Consumer Culture, Exotic "Other" -- Nicole Brossard, Mauve Desert : Crossings and Sitings -- GEO-POLITICAL MAPPINGS: DISTANCE AND DIFFERENCE -- Aritha van Herk, Places Far From Ellesmere: Place, Perception, Self -- Kristjana Gunnars, The Prowler: Territorial Rights, Textual Ways -- GENRE AND GENDER-BENDING -- Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips and Good Bones: Myths Revisited, Value Added -- Susan Swan, The Wives of Bath: the Female Body in Question -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.

This volume takes up the challenge of Canadian women's writing in its diversity, in order to examine the terms on which subjectivity, in its social, political and literary dimensions, emerges as discourse. Work from writers as diverse as Dionne Brand, Hiromi Goto and Margaret Atwood, among others, are studied both in their specific dimensions and through the collective focus of cultural and textual revision which characterizes Canadian writing in the feminine. Current theorizing on the postcolonial imaginary is brought to bear in the interests of forging or unpacking those links which tie the Self to culture. As such, Redefining the Subject sets out to discover the limits of the aesthetic in its encounter with the political: the figures and designs which envisage textual reimaginings as statements of a contemporary Canadian reality.

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