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Wider Boundaries of Daring

Wider Boundaries of Daring

The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry

by Di Brandt and Barbara Godard
Paperback
Publication Date: 11/04/2009

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Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, Elizabeth Brewster, Jay Macpherson, Anne Wilkinson, Anne Marriott, and Elizabeth Smart. In the introduction, editor Di Brandt champions particularly the achievements of Livesay, Page, and Webb in setting the visionary parameters of Canadian and international literary modernism.

The writers profiled in Wider Boundaries of Daring are the real founders of Canadian modernism, the contributors of this volume argue, both for their innovative aesthetic and literary experiments and for their extensive cultural activism. They founded literary magazines and writers' groups, wrote newspaper columns, and created a new forum for intellectual debate on public radio. At the same time, they led busy lives as wives and mothers, social workers and teachers, editors and critics, and competed successfully with their male contemporaries in the public arena in an era when women were not generally encouraged to hold professional positions or pursue public careers.

The acknowledgement of these writers' formidable contribution to the development of modernism in Canada, and along with it ""wider boundaries of daring"" for women and other people previously disadvantaged by racial, ethnic, or religious identifications, has profound implications for the way we read and understand Canadian literary and cultural history and for the shape of both national and international modernisms.
ISBN:
9781554580323
9781554580323
Category:
Literary companions
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11-04-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of origin:
Canada
Pages:
424
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x25mm
Weight:
0.65kg

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