Writing the roaming subject [electronic resource] : the biotext in Canadian literature / Joanne Saul.
2006
PR9188.2.M55 S28 2006eb
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Writing the roaming subject [electronic resource] : the biotext in Canadian literature / Joanne Saul.
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9781442683730 (electronic book)
0802090125
9780802090126
0802090125
9780802090126
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Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
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English
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1 online resource (viii, 175 p.) ; 24 cm.
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PR9188.2.M55 S28 2006eb
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810.9/809045
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"Engaging current debates within the studies of life writing and of the nation-state, Writing the Roaming Subject focuses on a group of Canadian writers who pose questions about cultural difference and national identity while writing about their own lives and their own experiences of displacement. Joanne Saul uses the term 'biotext' to describe the unique form of writing that challenges critical practices regarding both life writing and immigrant and ethnic minority writing by blurring the borders of biography, autobiography, history, fiction, and theory, as well as poetry, prose, and visual representation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Writing the roaming subject
Introducing the 'biotext'
'The shape of an unkown thing' : writing displacement in Running in the Family
'A story of listening way back in the body' : writing the self in Ghost Works
Routes and roots : the auto/biographical voices of Mothertalk
The politics and poetics of identity : 'faking it' in Diamond Grill
Epilogue: (Still) roaming.
Introducing the 'biotext'
'The shape of an unkown thing' : writing displacement in Running in the Family
'A story of listening way back in the body' : writing the self in Ghost Works
Routes and roots : the auto/biographical voices of Mothertalk
The politics and poetics of identity : 'faking it' in Diamond Grill
Epilogue: (Still) roaming.