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Engaging current debates within the studies of life writing and of the nation-state, __Writing the Roaming Subject__ focuses on a group of Canadian writers who pose questions about cultural difference and national identity while writing about their own lives and their own experiences of displacement. Joanne Saul uses the term 'biotext' to describe the unique form of writing that challenges critical practices regarding both life writing and immigrant and ethnic minority writing by blurring the borders of biography, autobiography, history, fiction and theory, as well as poetry, prose, and visual representation. In her readings of selected contemporary Canadian biotexts - including Michael Ondaatje's __Running in the Family__, Daphne Marlatt's __Ghost Works__, Roy Kiyooka's __Mothertalk__, and Fred Wah's __Diamond Grill__ - Saul suggests that by crossing generic boundaries, these works illuminate the complex relationships between language, place, and self as they are manifested in textual form. __Writing the Roaming Subject__ explores issues of identity formation, representation, and resistance in Canada and suggests that these are particularly crucial questions during a period of Can

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Author

Joanne Saul

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802090126

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Memoir, History