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Title: Remnants of nation : on poverty narratives by women / Roxanne Rimstead.
Main Entry: Rimstead, Roxanne, 1953-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Publication Date: c2001.
Publication Place: Toronto ; Buffalo :
ISBN: 0802044948 (bound) :
080208270X (pbk.) :
Subject: Poor women -- Canada.
Poverty -- Canada.
Women in literature.
Poverty literature -- Canada.
Canadian prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Canadian prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Femmes pauvres -- Canada.
Pauvreté -- Canada.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Pauvreté -- Documentation -- Canada.
Ecrits de femmes canadiens -- Histoire et critique.
Prose canadienne -- Histoire et critique.
Prose canadienne -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Contents: Introduction: Disturbing Images -- The Poor in the National Imaginary -- The Power of Images -- Poverty Narratives: A New Category of Analysis -- The Gender of Poverty -- Fictioning' a Literature -- Beyond Literature: Ordinary Voices -- Populist Motives -- Cultural Critique as Social Therapy -- Testimony and Radical Knowledge -- Visits and Homecomings -- Susanna Moodie: Poverty and Vice -- Nellie McClung: Social Gospel Rescue -- Gabrielle Roy: Everyday Struggle as Resistance -- 'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor Housing -- A Genealogy of Poor Houses -- Alice Munro's Gaze - from a Distance -- Homeplace and 'Bugs' -- Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor Women -- Anti-Theory, Anti-What? -- Subjectivities -- Theories of the Classed and Gendered Subject -- Understanding as Opposed to Mapping Subjectivities -- Subverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of Identity -- Cy-Thea Sand's Cultural Smuggling -- Maria Campbell's Halfbreed and Alternative Status-Honour Groups -- The Poor as Colonized Subjects -- Decolonizing Poor Subjects through Autobiography -- 'Organized Forgetting' -- On Autobiographical Memories of Poverty, Class, Gender, and Nation -- Poverty as Distant Landscape: Edna Jaques -- Class Travelling with Fredelle Bruser Maynard -- 'Remnants of Nation' -- Poverty and Nation as Reciprocal Constructions -- Saving the Nation: The Diviners -- Strategies of Containment and Exclusion -- Counter-national Testimonies -- The Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism.

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	Agency:	Collection:	Call No.:	Item Type:	Status:	Item Notes:	Barcode:	Media Type:
	Yarmouk	General	HQ 1453 .R55 2001	Normal Circulation	Available	الكتاب موجود في الطابق الأول	YU516672	Book