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Literary Criticism Canadian

Mapping Our Selves

Canadian Women's Autobiography

by (author) Helen M. Buss

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 1993
Category
Canadian, Women Authors

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    ISBN
    9780773563766
    Publish Date
    Mar 1993
    List Price
    $39.95

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Description

Buss supplies a framework for her study by reviewing male-centred theories of identity and some of the ways in which theorists working with women's autobiographical accounts are changing these models. The texts selected by Buss include those by Elizabeth Simcoe, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily Carr, Laura Salverson, Margaret Laurence, Dorothy Livesay, Daphne Marlatt, Mary Meigs, Maria Campbell, Kristjana Gunnars, and Aritha van Herk. Each section of the book opens with a short autobiographical introduction by Buss, allowing the reader to place the author's critical practice within the context of her sense of her own identity as critic, writer, and woman.

About the author

Anne McWhir is a professor of English at the University of Calgary and has written extensively on William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and P.B. Shelley.

D.L. Macdonald teaches English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of “The Vampyre” (1991) and of Monk Lewis (2000).

Helen M. Buss is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. Her book on Canadian women’s life writing, Mapping Our Selves, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize. As Margaret Clarke, she has published novels, short stories and poetry.

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Editorial Reviews

"Mapping Our Selves is ... a joy to read. Buss takes the risk of offering her own life as part of her critical process and succeeds in drawing the reader into an active and intimate relationship. Her obvious pleasure in these women's autobiographies makes itself felt on every page." Carol Shields, author of The Stone Diaries.

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