I-mag(in)ing the margins as frontiers: race and gender in the writing of Marlene Nourbese Philip

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dc.contributor.advisorRudy, Susan
dc.contributor.authorWolf, Doris Karen
dc.date.accessioned2005-08-05T16:35:49Z
dc.date.available2005-08-05T16:35:49Z
dc.date.issued1993
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 89-95.en
dc.description.abstractMainstream feminist discourse in Canada has privileged a critique of gender oppression. In doing so it has ignored the mutually reinforcing practices of sexism, racism, and classism, and has failed to interrogate issues of white privilege and power in Canadian society. Some women, both women of colour and white women, have begun to revise the definitions of feminism by exploring the intersections of race, class, and gender in women's lives and writing. It is in this discourse that I wish to take part, through an examination of the writings of African- Canadian writer Marlene Nourbese Philip. My first chapter will introduce the issues involved in constructing a liberatory black female subjectivity and revising feminist thinking in Canada. In She Tries Her Tongue. Her Silence Softly Breaks and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, Marlene Nourbese Philip both deconstructs hegemonic discourses and constructs a radical black subjectivity. My first chapter will explore her deconstructive work and my second chapter her reconstructive work. The author does both materially in her writing at the levels of story, text, word, and syllable. My final chapter will explore how reading Nourbese Philip's work can point to new directions for feminism.
dc.format.extentv, 95 leaves ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationWolf, D. K. (1993). I-mag(in)ing the margins as frontiers: race and gender in the writing of Marlene Nourbese Philip (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/17311en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/17311
dc.identifier.isbn031583286Xen
dc.identifier.lccPS 8565 O78 Z76 1993en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/30865
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject.lccPS 8565 O78 Z76 1993en
dc.subject.lcshNourbese Philip, Marlene, 1947-
dc.subject.lcshGender identity in literature
dc.subject.lcshRace in literature
dc.titleI-mag(in)ing the margins as frontiers: race and gender in the writing of Marlene Nourbese Philip
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 902 520541828
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