These essays emerge from a network of women speaking, writing, thinking. In fact, they intersect a decade of remarkable flowering of feminist, post-modern writing in Quebec - a decade where the ethical function of the text has been underscored in a writing practice greatly concerned with deciphering the effects of social constructs in language. This emphasis on the relationship between our struggles and writing-as-change has gained us, I believe, a new sense of what the essay is: a form deriving not only from the ...
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These essays emerge from a network of women speaking, writing, thinking. In fact, they intersect a decade of remarkable flowering of feminist, post-modern writing in Quebec - a decade where the ethical function of the text has been underscored in a writing practice greatly concerned with deciphering the effects of social constructs in language. This emphasis on the relationship between our struggles and writing-as-change has gained us, I believe, a new sense of what the essay is: a form deriving not only from the ideological, but also, the self-reflexive and the fictional. Written from 1980 to 1988, these essays explore the role of feminism in literature across a uniquely Canadian bilingual context. Through its rich introspection and eloquence, Scott shows the author's journey through a male-dominated literary canon into a celebration of her era, concluding that, 'A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Except ignore it'.
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