Mavis Gallant's Overhead in a Balloon: Politics and Religion, Language and Art

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Mavis Gallant's Overhead in a Balloon: Politics and Religion, Language and Art
Abstract
The author notes that linguistics and post-structuralist criticism are observed in studying Montrealer Mavis Gallant's fiction. He explains that through her characters, Gallant examines ideological issues such as sexism, imperialism, and nationalism. He argues that there is a constant collision of ideological perspectives so that the reader is alternately interpolated, drawn into events, and distanced thus engaging the reader into a critical debate. This collision, the tension between ideological perspectives, he concludes, is what gives birth to art itself. Thus Gallant examines the uncomfortable relationships between art and money, and between politics and religion.
Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne
Volume
Vol. 14
Issue
no. 2
Pages
27-47
Date
Summer 1989
Language
en
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Woolford, Daniel. “Mavis Gallant’s Overhead in a Balloon: Politics and Religion, Language and Art.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature Canadienne Vol. 14, no. 2 (Summer 1989): 27–47. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/8104/9161.
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