The Vision of Montréal in Gail Scott's Novels

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Title
The Vision of Montréal in Gail Scott's Novels
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.
Publication
Central European Journal of Canadian Studies
Volume
Vol. 2
Pages
7-14
Date
2002
Language
en
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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