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Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women

Title
  1. Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / Roxanne Rimstead.
Published by
  1. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2001], ©2001.
Author
  1. Rimstead, Roxanne.

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Description
  1. x, 348 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Prose canadienne > Histoire et critique
  2. Pauvreté > Canada
  3. Poverty > Canada
  4. Poor women > Canada
  5. Écrits de femmes canadiens > Histoire et critique
  6. Pauvreté > Documentation > Canada
  7. Femmes pauvres > Canada
  8. Women in literature
  9. Canadian prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  10. Prose canadienne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
  11. Canadian prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism
  12. Poverty literature > Canada
  13. Femmes dans la littérature
Contents
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-328) and index.