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- catalog abstract ""In this Comparative study of six Canadian novels Marie Vautier examines reworkings of myth in the postcolonial context. While myths are frequently used in literature as transhistorical master narratives, she argues that the novels she examines destabilize the traditional function of myth in their self-conscious reexamination of historical events from a postcolonial perspective. Through detailed readings of Francois Barcelo's La Tribu, George Bowering's Burning Water, Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes a Papineau, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre, and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-Wood People, Vautier situates New World myth within the broader contexts of political history and of classical, biblical, and historical myths. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10441981.
- catalog coverage "America In literature.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""In this Comparative study of six Canadian novels Marie Vautier examines reworkings of myth in the postcolonial context. While myths are frequently used in literature as transhistorical master narratives, she argues that the novels she examines destabilize the traditional function of myth in their self-conscious reexamination of historical events from a postcolonial perspective. Through detailed readings of Francois Barcelo's La Tribu, George Bowering's Burning Water, Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes a Papineau, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre, and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-Wood People, Vautier situates New World myth within the broader contexts of political history and of classical, biblical, and historical myths. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-331) and index.".
- catalog description "Postmodern myth and post-European history : thematics and theory in the New World -- Making myths, playing God : the narrator in Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes à Papineau and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-wood people -- Reshaping religions, challenging cosmogonies : Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre and Joy Kogawa's Obasan -- Magic realism and postcolonial challenges to history : George Bowering's Burning water and François Barcelo's La Tribu -- Imagining myth in the New World : George Bowering's Burning Water and François Barcelo's La Tribu.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 339 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0773516697 (cased)".
- catalog identifier "0773517480 (pbk)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog spatial "America In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog spatial "Canada.".
- catalog subject "813.5409 21".
- catalog subject "C813/.5409 21".
- catalog subject "Canadian fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Canadian fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Colonies in literature.".
- catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history Canada History.".
- catalog subject "Myth in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR9192.6.N37 V38 1998".
- catalog subject "Postcolonialism Canada.".
- catalog subject "Postcolonialism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Postcolonialism.".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature) Canada.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Postmodern myth and post-European history : thematics and theory in the New World -- Making myths, playing God : the narrator in Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes à Papineau and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-wood people -- Reshaping religions, challenging cosmogonies : Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre and Joy Kogawa's Obasan -- Magic realism and postcolonial challenges to history : George Bowering's Burning water and François Barcelo's La Tribu -- Imagining myth in the New World : George Bowering's Burning Water and François Barcelo's La Tribu.".
- catalog title "New world myth : postmodernism and postcolonialism in Canadian fiction / Marie Vautier.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".