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Je Me Souviens – Re/Writings of History in Contemporary Canadian Drama by René Schallegger is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Je Me Souviens – Re/Writings of History in Contemporary Canadian Drama about?
For a nation as young as Canada, writings and rewritings of history become essential elements in the creation of a postcolonial and independent national literature. This process was initiated during the late 1960s and 1970s, and it is not until the 1980s that we see theoretical perspectives being developed. Linda Hutcheon's reading of Canadian culture as driven by a sense of irony and obsessed with historiographic metafiction provides the context for William J. Keith's attempt at a national canon (building on the work of Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood), which orchestrates the emergence of contemporary Canadian drama. Following an exploration of the critics' work, six contemporary Canadian plays are briefly introduced and discussed as to how they actively re/write histories, or even the conventions of narrative themselves: Kevin Loring's Where the Blood Mixes (2009), David Yee's lady in the red dress (2010), Lorena Gale's Je
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- Author
- René Schallegger
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)