Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women
- Title
- Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / Roxanne Rimstead.
- Published by
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2001], ©2001.
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- Description
- x, 348 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Prose canadienne > Histoire et critique
- Pauvreté > Canada
- Poverty > Canada
- Poor women > Canada
- Écrits de femmes canadiens > Histoire et critique
- Pauvreté > Documentation > Canada
- Femmes pauvres > Canada
- Women in literature
- Canadian prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Prose canadienne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Canadian prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Poverty literature > Canada
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Contents
- Introduction: Disturbing Images -- 1. 'Fictioning' a Literature. 1.1. Beyond Literature: Ordinary Voices. 1.2. Populist Motives. 1.3. Cultural Critique as Social Therapy. 1.4. Testimony and Radical Knowledge -- 2. Visits and Homecomings. 2.1. Susanna Moodie: Poverty and Vice. 2.2. Nellie McClung: Social Gospel Rescue. 2.3. Gabrielle Roy: Everyday Struggle as Resistance -- 3. 'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor Housing. 3.1. A Genealogy of Poor Houses. 3.2. Alice Munro's Gaze - from a Distance. 3.3. Homeplace and 'Bugs' -- 4. Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor Women. 4.1. Anti-Theory, Anti-What? 4.2. Subjectivities. 4.3. Theories of the Classed and Gendered Subject. 4.4. Understanding as Opposed to Mapping Subjectivities -- 5. Subverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of Identity. 5.1. Cy-Thea Sand's Cultural Smuggling. 5.2. Maria Campbell's Halfbreed and Alternative Status-Honour Groups. 5.3. The Poor as Colonized Subjects.
- 5.4. Decolonizing Poor Subjects through Atuobiography -- 6. 'Organized Forgetting'. 6.1. On Autobiographical Memories of Poverty, Class, Gender, and Nation. 6.2. Poverty as Distant Landscape: Edna Jaques. 6.3. Class Travelling with Fredelle Bruser Maynard -- 7. 'Remnants of Nation'. 7.1. Poverty and Nation as Reciprocal Constructions. 7.2. Saving the Nation: The Diviners. 7.3. Strategies of Containment and Exclusion. 7.4. Counter-national Testimonies -- 8. The Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism. 8.1. Cultural Studies as a Site of Resistance. 8.2. A Toolkit of Theory. 8.3. Representing the Poor within Academic Discourse. Conclusion: Taking a Position -- App. Outlawing Boundaries.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-328) and index.