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ISBN 10: 0802072151 ISBN 13: 9780802072153
Editorial: University of Toronto Press, 1997

Sinopsis

Great Dames is a collection of biographical sketches, memoirs, and essays about twentieth-century Canadian women from all walks of life. While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinary women, it also explores the possibility of challenging, even subverting, the traditional view of life writing as an endeavour to summarize and fix in time, the public careers of public men. The fifteen essays represent a variety of alternative approaches to feminist biography, including chronological narrative, thematic exploration, multiple biography, conversations between biographer and subject, interviews, diaries, and even fictional accounts. In selecting their subjects, from Mennonite refugee women to an Ojibwa ethnologist, the contributors were asked to consider women who would be unlikely candidates for longer biographies; in the course of their research, however, it became clear that the lives of at least two of the chosen subjects warranted book-length examination. The selection also attempts to address perceived gaps in regional, class, racial, and disciplinary representation in life writing. Together, the essays reveal that the content, form, and perspective of biography are now bound only by the creativity, research energy, and taste of the biographer.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Acerca de los autores

Elspeth Cameron is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, and the author and editor of many Canadian literary biographies.

Janice Dickin is Associate Professor in the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary, and editor of Suitable for the Wilds.

De la contraportada

'Great Dames is a great read about little-known 20th-century Canadian women. It's a collection of 15 biographies written by women with various academic backgrounds, often in history or English. They seek not only to "capture the greatness of ordinary women's lives," but to challenge the traditional model of biography... Reading Great Dames has put me in touch with many layers of Canadian society that I never knew existed, and it does this by revealing fascinating segments of women's lives in dazzling detail.'

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'Great Dames is a great read about little-known 20th-century Canadian women. It's a collection of 15 biographies written by women with various academic backgrounds, often in history or English. They seek not only to "capture the greatness of ordinary women's lives," but to challenge the traditional model of biography... Reading Great Dames has put me in touch with many layers of Canadian society that I never knew existed, and it does this by revealing fascinating segments of women's lives in dazzling detail.'

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Editorial
University of Toronto Press
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802072151
ISBN 13 
9780802072153
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
352
Editor
Cameron Elspeth, Dickin Janice
Contacto del fabricante
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