Urban Space and Barstool Flânerie in Gail Scott's Main Brides

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Author/collaborator
Title
Urban Space and Barstool Flânerie in Gail Scott's Main Brides
Abstract
The author explains that Gail Scott's 1993 novel Main Brides, a textual intervention into the urban spaces of Montreal during the time immediately following the Montreal Massacre of Dec. 6, 1989, examines the ways in which urban spaces invite and deny women's belonging. The portraits of the main character, Lydia, invite the reader to engage in an active process of reading and interpreting history as it is played out on the surfaces of the city and the bodies of its citizens. The author concludes that the textual fragments of Main Brides emphasize juxtaposition, simultaneity, and surface-- characteristics of space rather than time.
Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne
Volume
Vol. 23
Issue
no. 1
Pages
250-263
Date
Winter 1998
Language
en
Citation
Servinis, Ellen. “Urban Space and Barstool Flânerie in Gail Scott’s Main Brides.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne Vol. 23, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 250–263.
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