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Product Description: In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing...read more

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9780773530317 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing.

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Product Description: Using the tools of contemporary feminist criticism and building on a tradition of work on Quebec women's writing, Mary Jean Green considers issues of national and cultural self-definition, situating the literary texts of Quebec women within a unique political and historical context while also relating them to the work of women writing in other cultural situations, from nineteenth-century Europe to the postcolonial francophone world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780773521285 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In Women and Narrative Identity Green demonstrates that the "national text" has at times functioned to constrain women's literary expression, while in other cases it has empowered the feminine voice, endowing it with a unique identitary power.

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9780773522077 | Reprint edition (McGill Queens Univ Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Using the tools of contemporary feminist criticism and building on a tradition of work on Quebec women's writing, Mary Jean Green considers issues of national and cultural self-definition, situating the literary texts of Quebec women within a unique political and historical context while also relating them to the work of women writing in other cultural situations, from nineteenth-century Europe to the postcolonial francophone world.

Product Description: Notions of place and space offer a framework for a variety of readings of the novels of Quebec. Works from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century are used to offer the reader a series of detailed textual analyses, but also to illuminate aspects of the geography and history of Quebec...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780820450902 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: Notions of place and space offer a framework for a variety of readings of the novels of Quebec.
9783906758855 | Peter Lang, December 1, 2000, cover price $77.95 | About this edition: Notions of place and space offer a framework for a variety of readings of the novels of Quebec.

Translated from the 1990 French edition that won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for literary criticism. Paterson (French, U. of Toronto) investigates whether there is such a creature as a postmodern Quebec novel, what its forms are, and what are its sites of interrogation. Considers a representative sampli

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9780802005304 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $35.00

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9780802069689 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Translated from the 1990 French edition that won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for literary criticism.

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Product Description: French-Canadian novels began as a marginal offshoot of French metropolitan writing and are now read and studied not only in English Canada but around the world. This collection of essays offers a history and analysis of French-Canadian fiction from the 1830s to the present day...read more

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9780195407235 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: French-Canadian novels began as a marginal offshoot of French metropolitan writing and are now read and studied not only in English Canada but around the world.

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