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Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Canada, grade: -, University of Copenhagen, course: Canadian Literature, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to determine how Canadian women wri ... celý popis
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Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Canada, grade: -, University of Copenhagen, course: Canadian Literature, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to determine how Canadian women writers have come toappropriate wilderness literature as a genre of their own. Feminist authors have transformedthe traditional quest novels, in which male protagonists enter, tame and claim the virgin land,by emphasizing the liberating potential of the wilderness. In this process, nature has come tobe regarded as mother and redeemer rather than femme fatale, villain, and killer. In the 1960sand 70s, the female quest novel became a medium for debating gender roles and theoppression of women. This thesis examines three novels from this era, which wascharacterized by a need for identity formation on a national as well as an individual level. Thenovels analyzed are Ethel Wilson s Swamp Angel, Margaret Atwood s Surfacing, and MarianEngel s Bear which differ from each other regionally and chronologically, but share in theireffort to break with patriarchal tradition. Each novel is analyzed in individual chapters, whichall attempt to determine how the wilderness is represented and the nature of the relationshipbetween the female protagonists and their environment. These characters come to discover aninherent bond between themselves and nature, which causes them to question and rebelagainst the unnatural structure of manmade gender roles. But even so, these wildernessheroines must return to society as they come to realize that they cannot cross the demarcationline between wild and civilized. The circular movements of their journeys are characteristic ofwomen s quest novels, which ultimately resituate their protagonists in patriarchal society.However, their quests have not been in vain, as they have gained knowledge only available tothose who have ventured outside the limits of the garrison.
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