TY - BOOK ID - 77885891 TI - Challenging Canada : dialogism and narrative techniques in Canadian novels PY - 2003 SN - 1282861336 9786612861338 0773571299 9780773571297 9781282861336 0773525874 9780773525870 PB - MontreĢal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Minorities in literature. KW - Dialogism (Literary analysis) KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Dialogics (Literary analysis) KW - Criticism KW - Minorities as a theme in literature KW - 820 <71> KW - 820-31 KW - #KOHU:CANADIANA 2002 KW - 820-31 Engelse literatuur: novel; roman KW - Engelse literatuur: novel; roman KW - 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada KW - Engelse literatuur--Canada UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77885891 AB - Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from positions of difference and resistance, inscribing previously oppressed and silenced voices through dialogic relations. She makes Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism amenable to textual analysis and problematizes its ideological forces by emphasizing elements of struggle and conflict. Challenging Canada rejects dialogism as a normative liberal pluralism and understands the inequality between voices as historically and socially constructed. ER -