Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English - Softcover
Canadian women have made remarkable contributions to world literature over the past 150 years, especially to the short story genre. Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize, and Margaret Atwood, Janette Turner Hospital, and Shields were all short-listed for the Booker Award. Now available in paperback, this book offers work from not only those prestigious names, but assembles a diverse cross-section of Canadian women's writing. Together, the fifty stories included here form a kind of collective narrative of women's experience past and present. All the stories are about women: in childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age; in relationships as daughters, sisters, lovers, mothers; and in a variety of social and political contexts. Their authors reflect Canada's racial and ethnic diversity as well as its geographic expanse, and the writers cover a wide range of styles from documentary narrative, romance adventure, and satiric social comedy to science fiction and postmodern metafiction. But regardless of genre, they all write confidently and eloquently about women's lives. No reader will fail to be amused, enthralled, intrigued, and invigorated.
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Rosemary Sullivan is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She has taught at the University of Dijon, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Victoria. Her books include The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out and the award-winning Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Rosemary Sullivan was born in Montreal where she received her B.A. from McGill University. She completed her M.A. at the University of Connecticut and her Ph.D. at the University of Sussex. She has taught at the University of Dijon, the University of Bordeaux, and University of Victoria, and is currently a Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her academic honors include Killam and Guggenheim fellowships, a Canada-United States-Mexico residency award, and a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Teaching Residency in India.
Rosemary Sullivan is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She has taught at the University of Dijon, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Victoria. Her books include The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out and the award-winning Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Rosemary Sullivan was born in Montreal where she received her B.A. from McGill University. She completed her M.A. at the University of Connecticut and her Ph.D. at the University of Sussex. She has taught at the University of Dijon, the University of Bordeaux, and University of Victoria, and is currently a Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her academic honors include Killam and Guggenheim fellowships, a Canada-United States-Mexico residency award, and a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Teaching Residency in India.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2099
- ISBN 10 0195414551
- ISBN 13 9780195414554
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages608
- EditorSullivan Rosemary
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