The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries. From early colonial texts by Frances Brooke, to settler texts by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, to more contemporary texts by Jane Rule, Alice Munro, Joshua Whitehead, Ivan Coyote, and others, this volume will introduce readers to how gender and sexuality have been variably conceived in Canada and the work they perform across multiple genres. Calling upon recent currents of gender theory and examining the composition, structure, and history of selected literary texts―that is, the “literary sediments” that have accumulated over centuries―readers of this book will explore how those representations shift over time. By examining literature in Canada in relation to crucial cultural, political, and historical contexts, readers will better apprehend why that literature has significantly transformed and broadened to address racialized and fluid identities that continue to challenge and disrupt any stable notion of gendered and sexualized identity today.
Author(s): Linda M. Morra
Series: Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 218
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Archaeologies of Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 2 Frances Brooke and the English Heroine of the Novel of Sensibility
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 3 Performances of Settler Femininity: Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 4 Ralph Connor and the Narrative of Muscular Christianity
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 5 Georgina SIME, Pauline Johnson, and the Rise of the New Woman
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 6 Jane Rule and the Development of Lesbian Literature in Canada
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 7 Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, and the (Post)Modern Woman
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 8 Recuperating Indigenous and Racialized Masculinities
Note
References
Further Reading
Chapter 9 “Moving Over”: Racialized Contemporary Womanhood
Notes
References
Further Reading
Chapter 10 Transgender, Two Spirit, and Gender-Nonconforming Literatures in Canada
Note
References
Further Reading
Index
