Looking back: Canadian women’s prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity

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dc.contributor.authorMatthews, S. Leigheng
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-22T19:42:06Z
dc.date.available2012-03-22T19:42:06Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionSeries: The West series; 1.eng
dc.description.abstractWhen we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the "cheerful helpmate" and the grim deprivation of the "reluctant immigrant." In this ground-breaking new study, Leigh Matthews shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era. Reopening for examination a substantial body of memoirs published after 1950 but now largely out of print, Matthews engages critical and feminist theory to close the gap between our polarized stereotypes and the actual lived experiences of rural prairie women. Addressing both the limitations and possibilities of life writing, Matthews presents a sound, well-developed and well-written case for memoir as reconciling female experience to the dominant historiography of the prairie west. Reading for "failures and incoherences," the memoirs considered here reveal women's voices that probe a community's most cherished values and beliefs, reveal its conflicts and contradictions, and call leaders to account. - Catherine Cavanaugh, Athabasca Universityen_US
dc.description.refereedYeseng
dc.identifier.citationMatthews, S. Leigh. "Looking back: Canadian women’s prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity". Series: The West series; 1, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2010.eng
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34599
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-55238-096-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/48921
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgary Presseng
dc.publisher.urlhttp://press.ucalgary.ca/eng
dc.rightsAttribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/*
dc.subjectWomen pioneers—Prairie Provinces—Biographyeng
dc.subjectWomen pioneers—Prairie Provinces—Social conditions.eng
dc.subjectWomen pioneers in literatureeng
dc.titleLooking back: Canadian women’s prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identityeng
dc.typebook
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