Challenging Canada: Dialogism and Narrative Techniques in Canadian Novels

by Gabriele Helms

In Challenging Canada Gabriele Helms examines novels by Jeannette Armstrong, Joy Kogawa, Daphne Marlatt, Sky Lee, Aritha van Herk, Thomas King, and Margaret Sweatman. As resistance literature, these novels question the idea of a homogeneous Canadian culture based on the idea of a peaceable kingdom. Helms shows how narrative techniques can contribute to or impede a text's challenges to hegemonic discourses and social injustices; novels become valuable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773525874
• ISBN13: 9780773525870
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"