Marlene Kadar

Working in Women's Archives

Researching Women's Private Literature and Archival Documents
Herausgeber: Buss, Helen M

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Produktbeschreibung

What comes to mind when we hear that a friend or colleague is studying unpublished documents in a celebrated author's archive? We might assume that they are reading factual documents or, at the very least, straightforward accounts of the truth about someone or some event. But are they? Working in Women's Archives is a collection of essays that poses this question and offers a variety of answers. Any assumption readers may have about the archive as a neutral library space or about the archival document as a simple and pure text is challenged. In essays discussing celebrated Canadian authors such as Marian Engel and L.M. Montgomery, as well as lesser-known writers such as Constance Kerr Sissons and Marie Rose Smith, Working in Women's Archives persuades us that our research methods must be revised and refined in order to create a scholarly place for a greater variety of archival subjects and to accurately represent them in current feminist and poststructuralist theories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 125
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780889203419
• ISBN-10: 0889203415
• Artikelnr.: 42302293

Autorenporträt

Marlene Kadar is an associate professor in humanities and women's studies at York University, and the former director of the graduate programme in interdisciplinary studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Working in Women's Archives: Researching Women's Private Literature and
Archival Documents, edited by Helen M. Buss and Marlene Kadar
Introduction Helen M. Buss
Locating Female Subjects in the Archives Carole Gerson
Constructing Female Subjects in the Archive: A Reading of Three Versions of
One Woman's Subjectivity Helen M. Buss
Researching Eighteenth-Century Maritime Women Writers: Deborah How
Cottnam-A Case Study Gwendolyn Davies
"A Dusting Off": An Anecdotal Account of Editing the L.M. Montgomery
Journals Mary Rubio
Reading My Grandmother's Life from Her Letters: Constance Kerr Sissons from
Adolescence to Engagement Rosalind Kerr
Personal Papers: Putting Lives on the Line-Working with the Marian Engel
Archive Christl Verduyn
An Epistolary Constellation: Trotsky, Kahlo, Birney Marlene Kadar
Afterword Marlene Kadar
Contributors
Helen M. Buss (aka Margaret Clarke), is a professor in the English
Department at the University of Calgary. She is the author of novels, plays
and poetry, as well as books and articles on Canadian literature and life
writing. In 1983 she won a best-first-novel prize in Manitoba for her book
The Cutting Season, and in 1993 she won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for her
study of Canadian women's autobiography, Mapping Our Selves. Her current
writing and research centres on the memoir form. In 1999 she published
Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood, and has recently completed a
book on women's uses of the memoir form with the working title,
Repossessing the World: Reading and Writing Contemporary Women's Memoirs.
Gwendolyn Davies is Dean of Graduate Studies and a member of the English
Department at the University of New Brunswick. She has authored or edited
various books and articles on Maritime literature and is particularly
interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women's writing and
cultural history in the Atlantic provinces.
Carole Gerson, a professor in the English Department at Simon Fraser
University, has done extensive research on Canadian literary history and
early Canadian women writers. In addition to many articles, her
publications include A Purer Taste: The Writing and Reading of Fiction in
English in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1989), Canada's Early Women Writers:
Texts in English to 1859 (1994), Canadian Poetry: From the Beginnings
through the First World War (1994), co-edited with Gwendolyn Davies, and
Paddling Her Own Canoe: Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson
(Tekahionake) (2000), co-authored with Veronica Strong-Boag. She is
currently a member of the editorial team working on The History of the Book
in Canada/ L'histoire du livre et de l'édition au Canada.
Marlene Kadar is the Director of the Graduate Programme in
Interdisciplinary Studies at York University. She teaches in the Humanities
Division and in Women's Studies. Her published works include Essays on Life
Writing: From Genre to Critical Practice (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992),
Reading Life Writing (Toronto: Oxford UP, 1993) and "'Write Down Everything
Just as You Know It': A Portrait of Ibolya Szalai Grossman," Great Dames,
ed. Elspeth Cameron and Janice Dickin (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997). Her
current research investigates Holocaust/ Porramjos life-writing narratives
and archival documents in order to examine the categories of ethnicity in
the Hungarian-speaking regions of Central Europe.
Rosalind Kerr is an assistant professor of Dramatic Theory and Criticism in
the Drama Department of the University of Alberta. Her main areas of
concentration are modern and contemporary dramatic and performance theory
with an emphasis on feminist, gay/lesbian / queer and critical race theory.
She is preparing a book on the first Italian actresses in sixteenth-century
Commedia dell'Arte. Another very important interest is in women's
auto/biography, focusing primarily on her grandmother Constance Kerr
Sissons's archive of letters, journals and an as yet unpublished novel.
Mary Henley Rubio is a professor of English at the University of Guelph
where she has taught since 1967. With Elizabeth Waterston, Professor
Emeritus at the University of Guelph, she has edited The Selected Journals
of L. M. Montgomery (Volumes 1 to 4 with a fifth volume to come [Oxford
UP]), co-written Writing a Life: L. M. Montgomery (ECW Press) and
co-published many other items on Montgomery. Since its founding in 1975,
she has co-edited the academic journal CCL: Canadian Children's
Literature/Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse. Mary Rubio's most
recent publication on Montgomery is "L. M. Montgomery:
Scottish-Presbyterian Agency in Canadian Culture," L. M. Montgomery and
Canadian Culture, ed. Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly (U of Toronto P),
and she is working on the official biography of Montgomery.
Christl Verduyn teaches and writes about Canadian literature, with special
interest in Canadian and Québécois women's writing and criticism,
multiculturalism, life writing and interdisciplinary approaches to
literature. Her books include Margaret Laurence: An Appreciation (1988),
Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan-Engel Correspondence (1995),
Lifelines: Marian Engel's Writing (1995), Literary Pluralities (1998) and
Marian Engel's Notebooks (1999). Before joining the faculty at Wilfrid
Laurier University in 2000, Christl Verduyn taught at Trent University,
where she was founding chair of Women's Studies (1987-90) and chair of
Canadian Studies (1993-99). She is currently president of the National
Association for Canadian Studies (2000-2002).