Writing a Politics of Perception: Memory, Holography, and Women Writers in Canada

by Dawn Thompson

Writing a Politics of Perception offers new approaches to five novels by women writing in Canada. Dawn Thompson analyses these works through an epistemological theory that shifts critical perspective in surprising ways.

Under consideration are two classics of Canadian literature, Nicole Brossard's "Picture Theory" and Margaret Atwood's "Surfacing", as well as three lesser-known works: Marlene Nourbese Phillip's "Looking for Livingstone",...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802043658
• ISBN13: 9780802043658
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 152 Pages