Memoirs from away : a new found land girlhood /
How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of multipl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Life writing series ;
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| Summary: | How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of multiple perspectives full of contradictory loyalties and obligations, of opposing histories and identities. For this woman, whose sense of a unified identity is so tenuous that she even writes under two names, writing memoirs becomes the way to bring together the diverse strands of her life. A Newfou. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 153 pages) : portrait |
| ISBN: | 0889203148 9780889203143 0889208700 9780889208704 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |