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Zwicker, Heather Sharon.

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New national narratives for a new world order: Contemporary postcolonial fiction from Canada and the North of Ireland.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	New national narratives for a new world order: Contemporary postcolonial fiction from Canada and the North of Ireland./
Author:	Zwicker, Heather Sharon.
Description:	222 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Regenia Gagnier.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Canadian (English). -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9404051

New national narratives for a new world order: Contemporary postcolonial fiction from Canada and the North of Ireland.
Zwicker, Heather Sharon.

New national narratives for a new world order: Contemporary postcolonial fiction from Canada and the North of Ireland. - 222 p.

Adviser: Regenia Gagnier.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1993.

This dissertation examines the trope of the nation in marginalized texts from Canada and the North of Ireland. It argues that the nation, an ambivalent cultural form, is the object of both desire and critique--at once paradigm and antipode to other imagined communities. Whereas the ideal nation is based on a comic form of continuity and regeneration that attempts to accommodate the movement of people through time and space, the writers examined here mark a critical distance from its assimilative narrative by insisting on cultural differences of sexuality, race, class and gender that continually assert themselves as interruptions in the nation's continuist trajectory. At the same time, these writers continue to espouse the democratic ideal of the nation, and so they search for new ways of imagining community. The counter-communities they imagine pattern themselves after the nation, but substitute culturally constructed notions of home and family for what the nation presents as natural.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022372
Literature, Canadian (English).

New national narratives for a new world order: Contemporary postcolonial fiction from Canada and the North of Ireland.
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520 $a This dissertation examines the trope of the nation in marginalized texts from Canada and the North of Ireland. It argues that the nation, an ambivalent cultural form, is the object of both desire and critique--at once paradigm and antipode to other imagined communities. Whereas the ideal nation is based on a comic form of continuity and regeneration that attempts to accommodate the movement of people through time and space, the writers examined here mark a critical distance from its assimilative narrative by insisting on cultural differences of sexuality, race, class and gender that continually assert themselves as interruptions in the nation's continuist trajectory. At the same time, these writers continue to espouse the democratic ideal of the nation, and so they search for new ways of imagining community. The counter-communities they imagine pattern themselves after the nation, but substitute culturally constructed notions of home and family for what the nation presents as natural.
520 $a The project is feminist in its commitments and postcolonial in its theoretical framework. The choice of Canada and Northern Ireland deliberately troubles easy assumptions about postcolonialism as history and discourse, in order to challenge its presuppositions and expand its possibilities.
520 $a Each chapter focusses on one of four axes of subjectivity: sexuality, race, class, and gender. Chapters 1 and 2 concern Canada. Chapter 1 looks at the New World through the lens of the lesbian coming-out narrative in Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic (1988). Chapter 2 addresses the relationship between race and nation and critically evaluates assimilative multiculturalism. It compares two novels by Japanese Canadian Joy Kogawa, Obasan (1981) and Itsuka (1992). Chapters 3 and 4 turn to Northern Ireland. Chapter 3 traces a critique of heroism, imperial and nationalist, in novels written from the perspective of working-class women. All three of these chapters implicitly discuss gender; Chapter 4 turns to gender as such, and uses three texts (wall murals, film, and short stories) to outline a strategy for reading gendered subjectivity without lapsing into essentialist cliches. A brief conclusion returns to the question of postcoloniality in the context of Canada and Northern Ireland and suggests sites of departure for further research.
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