Margaret Laurence Writes Africa And Canada

Author : Laura K. Davis
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771121491

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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada by Laura K. Davis Pdf

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada. Focusing on Laurence’s published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of English Canada during the implementation of Canadian multiculturalism. Laurence’s Canadian characters are often divided subjects who are not quite members of their ancestral “imperial” cultures, yet also not truly “native” to their nation. Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada shows how Laurence and her characters negotiate complex tensions between “self” and “nation,” and argues that Laurence’s African and Canadian writing demonstrates a divided Canadian subject who holds significant implications for both the individual and the country of Canada. Bringing together Laurence’s writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the study of Canadian literature. The book is an original interpretation of Laurence’s work and reveals how she displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted through continually changing social relations.

Author : Fiona Sparrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008732963

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Into Africa with Margaret Laurence by Fiona Sparrow Pdf

Author : Margaret Laurence,Kristjana Gunnars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014741741

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Crossing the River by Margaret Laurence,Kristjana Gunnars Pdf

In Crossing the River, thirteen Canadian and European scholars celebrate the life and work of Margaret Laurence. ". . . all students of Laurence's art should find this a useful, probing -casebook."--The Globe and Mail

Author : Margaret Laurence,Adele Wiseman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802080901

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Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman by Margaret Laurence,Adele Wiseman Pdf

The correspondence between Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman covers a period of 40 years, from 1947-1986, and encompasses the professional and personal developments, accomplishments, disappointments, and satisfactions of that period.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888644078

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Heart of a Stranger by Margaret Laurence Pdf

Travel was closely connected to Margaret Laurence’s creativity. Laurence realized that her travels, especially to Africa, provided her with new perspectives on Canada. Heart of a Stranger, originally published in 1976, is a fascinating travelogue chronicling Laurence's geographical journeys to many lands and historic places. She notes "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean both those voyages which are outer and those voyages which are inner." Laurence writes about her travels to Egypt in "Good Morning to the Grandson of Ramesses the Second," to Scotland in "Road from the Isles," and to Greece in "Sayonara, Agamemnon." In "The Very Best Intentions" Laurence sees herself as a "stranger in a strange land" in Ghana. She reflects on the many places she lived in "Put Out One or Two More Flags," "Down East," "The Shack" and "Where the World Began." Professor Nora Foster Stovel’s new introduction "Heart of a Traveller" explores how Laurence’s experiences in other lands influenced and shaped her writing. She contends that "Heart of a Stranger constitutes a concealed autobiography, for, in chronicling her literal life journey, Laurence also reveals her spiritual odyssey."

Author : Donez Xiques
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459714694

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Margaret Laurence by Donez Xiques Pdf

Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence's first commercially successful novel. Donez Xiques demonstrates the importance of Margaret Laurence's early work as a journalist in her development as a writer and covers her return to Canada from Africa in the late 1950s. She details the significance of Laurence's "Vancouver years" as well as the challenges of her year in London prior to settling at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire, when Laurence stood on the verge of success. The Margaret Laurence known to most people is a public figure of the 1960s and 1970s; matriarchal, matronly, and accomplished. The story of her early years in the harsh setting of the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s - years of drought and the Great Depression - and of her African years has never before been chronicled with the thoroughness and vividness that Xiques provides for the reader. Appended to this powerful new biography is a short story by Margaret Laurence that has never before been published and two other stories that have not been widely available. They indicate the range of her concerns and show a marked departure from her fiction in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories and A Bird in the House. Readers will benefit from the extensive research in this full and vibrant portrait of one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian literature.

Author : Nora Foster Stovel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780773577480

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Divining Margaret Laurence by Nora Foster Stovel Pdf

Margaret Laurence is justly famous for her Manawaka cycle of Canadian novels, but her work extends from Canada to Africa and includes poetry and prose, children's and adult literature, memoir and travel-writing.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039718148

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A Place to Stand on by Margaret Laurence Pdf

Author : James King
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307367211

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The Life Of Margaret Laurence by James King Pdf

The magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551992433

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The Diviners by Margaret Laurence Pdf

The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel. This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers. The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance. The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSD:31822011716032

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This Side Jordan by Margaret Laurence Pdf

In 1957, the British colony of the Gold Coast broke free to become the independent nation of Ghana. Margaret Laurence's first novel, This Side Jordan, recreates that colour-drenched world: a place where men and women struggle with self-betrayal, self-discovery, and the dawning of political pride. This Side Jordan transcends the traditional limits of the first novel. Its powerful and compassionate characterizations and its themes of exile and community anticipate the five later novels that make up Laurence's acclaimed Manawaka series. A major work of lasting significance, This Side Jordan creates echoes in the mind of the reader as resonant as the drums of Ghana.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993768

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A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence Pdf

In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world. Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Through her summer affair with Nick Kazlik, a schoolmate from earlier years, she learns at last to reach out to another person and to make herself vulnerable. A Jest of God won the Governor General’s Award for 1966 and was released as the successful film, Rachel, Rachel. The novel stands as a poignant and singularly enduring work by one of the world’s most distinguished authors.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000226849

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The Tomorrow-tamer and Other Stories by Margaret Laurence Pdf

The ten stories gathered together in "The Tomorrow-Tamer" are Margaret Laurence's first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country's new freedom. With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780226923888

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The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence Pdf

In 1950, as a young bride, Margaret Laurence set out with her engineer husband to what was then Somaliland: a British protectorate in North Africa few Canadians had ever heard of. Her account of this voyage into the desert is full of wit and astonishment. Laurence honestly portrays the difficulty of colonial relationships and the frustration of trying to get along with Somalis who had no reason to trust outsiders. There are moments of surprise and discovery when Laurence exclaims at the beauty of a flock of birds only to discover that they are locusts, or offers medical help to impoverished neighbors only to be confronted with how little she can help them. During her stay, Laurence moves past misunderstanding the Somalis and comes to admire memorable individuals: a storyteller, a poet, a camel-herder. The Prophet’s Camel Bell is both a fascinating account of Somali culture and British colonial characters, and a lyrical description of life in the desert.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993775

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The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence Pdf

The film adaptation of Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, starring acclaimed actresses Ellen Burstyn and Ellen Page, and introducing Christine Horne, opens in theatres May 9, 2008. This special fortieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Laurence’s most celebrated novel will introduce readers again to one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Hagar Shipley is stubborn, querulous, self-reliant, and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her, she makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence. As her story unfolds, we are drawn into her past. We meet Hagar as a young girl growing up in a black prairie town; as the wife of a virile but unsuccessful farmer with whom her marriage was stormy; as a mother who dominates her younger son; and, finally, as an old woman isolated by an uncompromising pride and by the stern virtues she has inherited from her pioneer ancestors. Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer of extraordinary craft and profound insight into the workings of the human heart.