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Mapping the Female Self through the Canadian Landscape: Short Stories by Canadian Women Writing in English
Author(s) -
Jenainati Cathia
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00587.x
Subject(s) - wilderness , narrative , ethnic group , history , cover story , gender studies , politics , literature , psychology , cover (algebra) , sociology , art , anthropology , political science , ecology , law , engineering , biology , mechanical engineering
This essay offers a chronological analysis of the progress of the short story in Canada as narrated by women writers who specifically examined the problematic relationship of the individual with the Canadian landscape. It demonstrates that whilst early narratives portrayed settler women as colonizers and tamers of the wilderness, narratives of the first half of the twentieth century chart the complexities – ethnic, political, historical and cultural – of establishing a cartography of the self. The chosen stories cover the range of recorded female experiences from 1845 to 1945.