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Family Walls, A Costly Inheritance : The Implications of Social Structures in the Fiction of Mavis Gallant
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Family Walls, A Costly Inheritance : The Implications of Social Structures in the Fiction of Mavis Gallant
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| Abstract |
Analyzing a selective number of Montreal author Mavis Gallant's (1922-2014) stories, the author examines Gallant's preoccupation with how contexts -- individual settings, family settings, social and political networks -- merge with and reflect one another. The author contends that the "eye" of Gallant's stories shows, over and over again, that the family is a rigid and stultifying structure, maintained by its members to stabilize patterns of response that they find familiar and comfortable. The family, generally portrayed by Gallant as patriarchal and oppressive, constructs a picture of "reality" consistent with the values and prejudices of its most powerful member.
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Master's Thesis
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Carleton University
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Ottawa, ON
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1987
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[7]-172p.
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en
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Sowerby, J. Gail. “Family Walls, A Costly Inheritance : The Implications of Social Structures in the Fiction of Mavis Gallant.” Master’s Thesis, Carleton University, 1987. https://curve.carleton.ca/2e21e806-68c7-49db-a1ad-3ab17233f291.
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