Looking back Canadian women's prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity
When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the ""cheerful helpmate"" and the grim deprivation of the ""reluctant immigrant."" In Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersecti...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Calgary [Alta.] :
University of Calgary Press
©2010.
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| Colección: | Canadian ebooks.
The West series, 1. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44702486*spi |
| Sumario: | When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the ""cheerful helpmate"" and the grim deprivation of the ""reluctant immigrant."" In Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity, Leigh Matthews shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era. Reopening for examination a substantial body of memoirs published after 1950 but now largely out of print, Matthews engages critical and feminist th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 391-409) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781552385098 9781552385951 9781552385975 |
