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Lundgren, Jodi Margaret E.

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Narrative aesthetics, multicultural politics, and (trans)national subjects: Contemporary fictions of Canada.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narrative aesthetics, multicultural politics, and (trans)national subjects: Contemporary fictions of Canada./
Author:	Lundgren, Jodi Margaret E.
Description:	385 p.
Notes:	Chairperson: Carolyn Allen.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-12A.
Subject:	Literature, Canadian (English). -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3036497
ISBN:	9780493495255

Narrative aesthetics, multicultural politics, and (trans)national subjects: Contemporary fictions of Canada.
Lundgren, Jodi Margaret E.

Narrative aesthetics, multicultural politics, and (trans)national subjects: Contemporary fictions of Canada. - 385 p.

Chairperson: Carolyn Allen.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2001.

This dissertation provides new insight into the problem of the production and recontainment of differences within multiculturalist ideology by invoking Marxist critiques of aesthetic reconciliation. In its attempt to negotiate the two opposing risks of reinscribing, or prematurely resolving, social antagonisms, the ideology of multiculturalism functions in the political field much as aesthetic reconciliation does within a literary text. With both Marxist aestheticians and critics of multiculturalism deeming reconciliation undesirable, impossible, or both, the problem of how to handle incommensurable differences remains. To resist reconciling differences within the nation requires the support of a corresponding structure of subjectivity. Given that the primary issue in Canada is not erasure but subordination of difference, non-dominant "others" need to resist assimilation into the centrist paradigm, which necessitates a departure from structural homology between (dominant) self and other. I contend that narrative literature conducts explorations and experiments in subjectivity and that contemporary Canadian fictions demonstrate both the impasse of dichotomous, nationalistic individualism and the progressive potential of non-oppositional, transnational subjectivities. In the first three chapters, I posit the constellation of individualism, unitary nation, and monologic narration within these post-1971 novels: Margaret Laurence's The Diviners , Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka, and Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion. My reading of these works reveals the prohibitive cost to minoritized subjects of attempting national unity (or identity defined as self-identicalness) and the consequent need for other methods of configuring community and subjectivity. In the last two chapters, I argue that an alternate constellation among post-individualism, transnationalism and polyphonic (or else anti-referential) narration exists in the texts of Nicole Brossard, in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash , in Lee Maracle's Sundogs and in Judith Thompson's Lion in the Streets. Ultimately, I conclude that narrative innovation may initiate alternatives to entrenched structures of domination at the intrasubjective and communal levels.

ISBN: 9780493495255Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022372
Literature, Canadian (English).

Narrative aesthetics, multicultural politics, and (trans)national subjects: Contemporary fictions of Canada.
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