Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals) : Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  1. Canadianness and women’s fiction  2. Margaret Laurence: A Bird in the House, The Diviners  3. Margaret Atwood: Bodily Harm, A Handmaid’s Tale  4. Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women, The Beggar Maid  5. Mavis Gallant: Home Truths  6. Marian Engel: Bear; Joy Kogawa Obasan; Janette Turner Hospital The Ivory Swing  7. Audrey Thomas: Latakia; Joan Barfoot Dancing in the Dark  8. Marie-Claire Blais Les Nuits de L’underground/Nights in the Underground; Anne Hebert Heloise;  Conclusion;  Notes;  Biographical sketches;  Bibliography;  Index