Into Africa with Margaret Laurence
Title | Into Africa with Margaret Laurence PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Sparrow |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada
Title | Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Laura K. Davis |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2017-05-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1771121491 |
Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada. Focusing on Laurence’s published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of English Canada during the implementation of Canadian multiculturalism. Laurence’s Canadian characters are often divided subjects who are not quite members of their ancestral “imperial” cultures, yet also not truly “native” to their nation. Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada shows how Laurence and her characters negotiate complex tensions between “self” and “nation,” and argues that Laurence’s African and Canadian writing demonstrates a divided Canadian subject who holds significant implications for both the individual and the country of Canada. Bringing together Laurence’s writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the study of Canadian literature. The book is an original interpretation of Laurence’s work and reveals how she displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted through continually changing social relations.
Long Drums & Cannons
Title | Long Drums & Cannons PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Laurence |
Publisher | University of Alberta |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780888643322 |
Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text and a glossary complete this edition."--BOOK JACKET.
A Jest of God
Title | A Jest of God PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Laurence |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1993-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780226469522 |
For years Rachel Cameron has dreamed of leaving her small town and her manipulative mother; but duty and caution have kept her at home. At thirty-four, she finally confronts passion and death, and realizes that she cannot continue to sacrifice love and freedom, but needs both to survive. Rachel's passage towards self-discovery is one we will reognize - one that is exciting, sad, funny, and true.
Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada
Title | Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Laura K. Davis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 177 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781771121460 |
Articulates how Margaret Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English-Canada. Laurence displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures, and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted through continually changing social relations.
Heart of a Stranger
Title | Heart of a Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Laurence |
Publisher | University of Alberta |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780888644077 |
Travel was closely connected to Margaret Laurence’s creativity. Laurence realized that her travels, especially to Africa, provided her with new perspectives on Canada. Heart of a Stranger, originally published in 1976, is a fascinating travelogue chronicling Laurence's geographical journeys to many lands and historic places. She notes "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean both those voyages which are outer and those voyages which are inner." Laurence writes about her travels to Egypt in "Good Morning to the Grandson of Ramesses the Second," to Scotland in "Road from the Isles," and to Greece in "Sayonara, Agamemnon." In "The Very Best Intentions" Laurence sees herself as a "stranger in a strange land" in Ghana. She reflects on the many places she lived in "Put Out One or Two More Flags," "Down East," "The Shack" and "Where the World Began." Professor Nora Foster Stovel’s new introduction "Heart of a Traveller" explores how Laurence’s experiences in other lands influenced and shaped her writing. She contends that "Heart of a Stranger constitutes a concealed autobiography, for, in chronicling her literal life journey, Laurence also reveals her spiritual odyssey."
The Prophet's Camel Bell
Title | The Prophet's Camel Bell PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Laurence |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2012-10-12 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0226923886 |
In 1950, as a young bride, Margaret Laurence set out with her engineer husband to what was then Somaliland: a British protectorate in North Africa few Canadians had ever heard of. Her account of this voyage into the desert is full of wit and astonishment. Laurence honestly portrays the difficulty of colonial relationships and the frustration of trying to get along with Somalis who had no reason to trust outsiders. There are moments of surprise and discovery when Laurence exclaims at the beauty of a flock of birds only to discover that they are locusts, or offers medical help to impoverished neighbors only to be confronted with how little she can help them. During her stay, Laurence moves past misunderstanding the Somalis and comes to admire memorable individuals: a storyteller, a poet, a camel-herder. The Prophet’s Camel Bell is both a fascinating account of Somali culture and British colonial characters, and a lyrical description of life in the desert.