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A place to stand on : essays by and about Margaret Laurence
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ISBN: 0920316689 0920316662 9780920316689 9780920316665 Year: 1983 Volume: 4 Publisher: Edmonton : NeWest,


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National and Female Identity in Canadian Literature, 1965-1980 : The Fiction of Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Marian Engel
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ISBN: 0773411216 9780773411210 9780773426221 0773426221 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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This book discusses how national identity is depicted among Female Canadian authors in the mid to late twentieth century. It shows the traversal of realism and idealism, ethnicity, gender, and the construction of community in several novels. She argues that most critics emphasize the romance aspects of the novels, particularly because these are women authors, and ignore or overlook the realist dimensions to the stories. Doing this often creates a certain stereotype about women authors, and female identity, that poses issues related to one's national identity. While in the 1960's-80's it was no

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