Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future

Download or read book Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future written by Karen McPherson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An apocalyptic vision of planetary self-destruction provided the context for many late twentieth-century narratives. Women writers from Quebec and English Canada, including Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, Madeleine Gagnon, Betsy Warland, Marie-Claire Blais, and Nicole Brossard, redefined their relationship to time and narrative in order to tell a different, perhaps more hopeful, story. Using "archaeology" as a trope and a methodology, Karen McPherson's "critical excavations" of these women's writings pose questions about loss and mourning, survival and witnessing, devastation and writing, remembering and imagining.