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Helen M. Buss - Memoirs from Away, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

Memoirs from Away

A New Found Land Girlhood

Av Helen M. Buss

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How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of multiple perspectives full of contradictory loyalties and obligations, of opposing histories and identities. For this woman, whose sense of a unified identity is so tenuous that she even writes under two names, writing memoirs becomes the way to bring together the diverse strands of her life. A Newfoundland girl who awakened to the public world just at the moment her homeland joined Canada, she writes of her childhood, of the effects of war, technology, the politics of nation and gender, and of the private world of several generations of her close-knit family. From the perspective of a woman from ""away"", she discovers a New Found Land of ""girlhood"" that weaves past and present in a narrative that delights in questioning its own making.
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Helen M. Buss is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. Her book on Canadian women's life writing, Mapping Our Selves, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize. As Margaret Clarke, she has published novels, short stories and poetry. Three of her most recent books published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press are Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives, edited with D.L. Macdonald and Anne McWhir, and Working in Women's Archives edited with Marlene Kadar.

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``What makes Buss/Clarke's work stand out is her innate attention to detail. Not only does she describe personal family history within the political and historical context of her former home, she provides intimate and physical glimpses into her sometimes painful past, which in every sense paved her future.... And educators, especially those interested in the history of education in Newfoundland, will delve again and again into the author's final chapters. The quotations taken directly from history and science textbooks of the 1950s in Newfoundland's elementary school curriculum are fascinating and Buss/Clarke explores how such conservative texts shaped and influenced her perception of herself as a child and as a woman in a world dominated by men and the work of men.... Memoirs from Away is more than just a memoir. It reads like a novel, and it engages readers to think beyond the author's life and to think of their own. Here is one woman's quest for truth--for herself, for women, for womanhood. Perhaps Helen Buss/Margaret Clarke's Memoirs from Away will influence others to delve deeper and welcome such a journey for truth.'' -- Cynthia Boyd -- Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation Sur La Recherche Féministe, Volume 27 #3-4, Spring 200, 200005

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