The Vision of Montréal in Gail Scott's Novels
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The Vision of Montréal in Gail Scott's Novels
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Abstract |
The author analyzes Gail Scott's two novels, Heroine (1987) and Main Brides (1993). She regards the two novels as existing in a unique symbiosis as city novels, examining on the one hand how the cityscape of Montreal becomes internalized in the protagonists' psyches, and on the other hand, how it becomes a character of its own in the process of narrating its/their individual identity/ies. The author focuses on the idiosyncratic representations in each novel of the engendered female space in which Montreal becomes a peculiar "collective" protagonist. The social, cultural, political, linguistic (bilingual) and ethnic spaces in the two novels are approached in accordance with the multifarious cityscape from a bi- and multicultural point of view.
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Central European Journal of Canadian Studies
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Vol. 2
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7-14
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Date |
2002
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Language |
en
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Citation |
Molnár, Judit. “The Vision of Montréal in Gail Scott’s Novels.” Central European Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 2 (2002): 7–14.
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