Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women
Roxanne Rimstead
"The Remnants of Nation" is a ground breaking book that introduces a new genre called 'poverty narratives' to study literature and popular culture in the larger context of economic and literary disenfranchisement. While issues of race, gender, and sexuality are now circulating in literary studies and their 'constructedness' is being debated, the relations of class, poverty, and narrative have not been thoroughly examined until now. Here, poverty is treated not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves.
Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include more ordinary voices ... Read more
Given the scope of the study, Rimstead's work will appeal not only to literary scholars and Canadian social historians, but to students and instructors of women's studies, cultural studies, and sociology.
Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize, English Language, awarded by the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures
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