Beyond Horizon: Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness and the Prairie Novel Tradition
Although Miriam Toews’s novels have garnered plaudits from prize committees all over North America, very little scholarly attention so far has been paid to the aesthetic dimension of her writing. Her novels, however, engage in thought-provoking ways with the Prairie novelistic tradition and the vari...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | Although Miriam Toews’s novels have garnered plaudits from prize committees all over North America, very little scholarly attention so far has been paid to the aesthetic dimension of her writing. Her novels, however, engage in thought-provoking ways with the Prairie novelistic tradition and the various strategies her predecessors have elaborated to turn indifferent space into inhabitable place. Aiming her narrator’s wry humor at the “unique apartness” of the Mennonite community, Toews uses the incongruous as a discursive weapon to instill a sense of solidarity with the displaced and the marginal. In this respect, her writing is fully resonant with the anxieties of a national culture that endeavors to conjugate within the same space the claims of its minorities with the ethical aspirations of an increasingly diverse majority. |
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