Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements. Abbreviations used in the text. Introduction. Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature. -- Part I -- Chapter 1 Postmodernism, Postcolonialism and Feminism in Canada -- Chapter 2 Canadian Identity -- Part II -- Chapter 3 Ontario -- Chapter 4 British Columbia -- Chapter 5 Nova Scotia -- Conclusion -- Samenvatting -- Notes -- Bibliography.

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.

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