Reviews for Canadian Women Writing Fiction

The average rating for Canadian Women Writing Fiction based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-14 00:00:00 Pierre Magnan Elaine Jahner was thoughtful in giving her book royalties to our library upon her passing. Although, it only amounts to a few hundred a year, it is much needed and appreciated. This is an academic study that really requires specialized knowledge to fully grasp. I skipped around some of the parts that would require reading two more books to grasp this one. In spite of this fact, there is some important historical detail and information regarding Standing Rock, Cannon Ball and Harry and Lillian Fast Horse. I've been looking for her papers, which as yet don't seem to be available. If the papers and recordings do become available, they will be a great asset to the interpretation of Standing Rock history.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-27 00:00:00 Leo Samuel Pratt Her literary analysis of Moby Dick is really stirring. The work in and of itself is important, but the book is often uneven. She moves from cartography to Melville to housing sectioning as examples of the workings of whiteness in society and how it inscribes itself as dominant normalcy (and, in the case of Melville, how you work against that), and these are all fine examples, but they are disparate and she doesn't make a good case as to why these examples all belong together (why not all lit? all housing/education studies? etc.)