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Reading in: Alice Munro's Archives

Reading in: Alice Munro's Archives

McCaig, Joann

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0889203369
ISBN13: 9780889203365
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: May 3 2002
Pages: 193
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer's archive?
Collections of authors' manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text. JoAnn McCaig sets out to show how archival materials can also provide fascinating insights into the business of culture, reveal the individuals, institutions, and ideologies that shape the author and her work, and describe the negotiations that occur between an author and the cultural marketplace. Using a feminist cultural studies approach, JoAnn McCaig reads in to the archives of acclaimed Canadian short story writer Alice Munro in order to explore precisely how the terms Canadian, woman, short story, and writer are constructed in her writing career. Munro's correspondence with mentor Robert Weaver, agent Virginia Barber, publishers Doug Gibson and Ann Close, and writer John Metcalf tell a fascinating story of how one very determined and gifted writer made her way through the pitfalls of the culture business to achieve the enviable authority she now claims.

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