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Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood (Life Writing Series) by Helen M Buss; Margaret Clarke is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood (Life Writing Series) about?

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.--jacket. A Newfoundland Girl Who Awakened To The Public World Just At The Moment Her Homeland Joined Canada, She Writes Of Her Childhood, Of The Effects Of War, Technology, The Politics Of Nation And Gender, And Of The Private World Of Several Generations Of Her Close-knit Family. From The Perspective Of A Woman From Away, She Discovers A New Found Land Of Girlhood That Weaves Past And Present In A Narrative That Delights In Questioning Its Own Making.--jacket. People Live Here: Imagine That -- War: Mother's Child -- Peace: Daddy's Girl -- Avalon: Knowing My Place -- School: Losing Mary Lou; Finding Sally -- History And Politics: My Brother Dave, His Friend Sid And Louis St. Laurent. Helen M. Buss/margaret Clarke.

Author

Helen M Buss; Margaret Clarke

Publisher

Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780889208704

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24