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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

Davis, Laura K.

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ISBN10: 1771121475
ISBN13: 9781771121477
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: May 18 2017
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada.
Focusing on Laurence's published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of English Canada during the implementation of Canadian multiculturalism. Laurence's Canadian characters are often divided subjects who are not quite members of their ancestral imperial cultures, yet also not truly native to their nation. Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada shows how Laurence and her characters negotiate complex tensions between self and nation, and argues that Laurence's African and Canadian writing demonstrates a divided Canadian subject who holds significant implications for both the individual and the country of Canada.

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