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Laurence, Margaret - (Jean Margaret Laurence), 1926–87, Canadian novelist, b. Manitoba. She lived in Somaliland, Ghana, and England and many of her early works had an African setting. Laurence was particularly concerned with character, and her writings usually focused on women struggling to overcome the limitations of small town life. Among her novels are This Side Jordan (1960), The Stone

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New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism » Read Now
by Greta M. Coger. 238 pgs.

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Nearly all of Laurence's works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence's innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and unique shifts in tense and point of view help her achieve vivid character portrayals. In addition...
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Nearly all of Laurence's works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence's innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and unique shifts in tense and point of view help her achieve vivid character portrayals. In addition, viewing Laurence's prose as closely textured poetry, her use of language, theme, and image are carefully critiqued. The importance of Laurence's portrayal of women's experiences, most notably that of aging women, is viewed in a feminist framework. These new American perspectives on Laurence will be of interest to both scholars and students.
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The Dominion of Women: The Personal and the Political in Canadian Women's Literature (Chap. 4 "'A Canadian Theme . . . Just as Much a Personal Theme': Margaret Laurence, Canada and the 1960s") » Read Now
by Wayne Fraser. 194 pgs.

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This examination of the works of 18 women writers in English Canada's history demonstrates how Canadian women's literature provides rich insight into the social and political development of the country. Arranged chronologically from colonial times through the 1980s, the study provides in-depth...
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This examination of the works of 18 women writers in English Canada's history demonstrates how Canadian women's literature provides rich insight into the social and political development of the country. Arranged chronologically from colonial times through the 1980s, the study provides in-depth analyses of works of such notables as Frances Brooke, Ethel Wilson, and Margaret Atwood. Fraser's contention is that the literature, as a forum where women voiced their personal concerns, reflects Canada's political identity as a country with a continuing commitment to the essentially feminine values of compromise, cooperation, and international peace.
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From the Hearth to the Open Road: A Feminist Study of Aging in Contemporary Literature (Discussion of Margaret Laurence begins on p. 157) » Read Now
by Barbara Frey Waxman. 212 pgs.

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This literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women on the subject of aging. It discusses the emergence of a new fictional genre--the novel of ripening or Reifungsroman. The book contains an extensive bibliography of 20th-century popular periodical articles on aging...
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This literary critical book deals exclusively with contemporary fiction by women on the subject of aging. It discusses the emergence of a new fictional genre--the novel of ripening or Reifungsroman. The book contains an extensive bibliography of 20th-century popular periodical articles on aging (Canadian, American, and British), literary critical articles on aging in the fiction of Doris Lessing, Alice Adams, Paule Marshall, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, May Sarton, and Margaret Laurence, as well a general literary critical works on these authors, and some general (nonliterary) studies of aging, such as Simone de Beavoir's The Coming Age.
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African Interests: White Liberalism and Resistance in Margaret Laurence's "Pure Diamond Man," in International Fiction Review » Read Now
by John C. Eustace. 7 pgs.

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Reading Together and Apart: Feminism and/versus Ethnicity in Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood: A Conversation, in American Review of Canadian Studies » Read Now
by Lynn Z. Bloom. 15 pgs.

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Temples and Tabernacles: Alternative Religions in the Fictional Microcosms of Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro, in International Fiction Review » Read Now
by Nora Foster Stovel. Multiple pgs.

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