Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature

by Di Brandt

Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon. In her search for sources for telling the new (or old, forbidden story) against a tradition of narrative absence, Brandt turns to Canadian fiction representing a varety of cultural traditions - Margaret Laurence, Daphne Marlatt, Jovette Marchessault, Joy Kogawa, Sky Lee - and a collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887556329
• ISBN13: 9780887556326
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"