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The Columbia History of the American NovelThe West Indies has also provided a setting that serves much the same paracolonial project, as is seen in such novels as Atwood's Bodily Harm (1981), Kreiner's Heartlands (1984), and Bissoondath's A Casual Brutality. Francophone and Anglophone; Eurocentric and Native American; oldest and newest; conservative and experimental; conservative and feminist; colonial, postcolonial, and paracolonial — this excess of adjectives does not bring the subject into clearer focus, and "The Novel in Canada" necessarily remains itself a fiction, a narration of narrations produced in a place that is as much a narrative entity as a geographical or a historical one. Or perhaps not so much a narrative entity as a discordance of different narratives; as Robert Kroetsch has recently claimed, the "very falling apart of our story is what holds our story — and us — together." Yet the French stories are different enough from the English stories, the western from the eastern, the immigrants' from the Native peoples', that we regularly wonder (as with the recent failure of Canada's Meech Lake accord) if this very excess of stories might not eventually undo the country itself ...» |
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