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Covering the works of Canadian authors Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood and Drew Hayden Taylor, the author explores how the themes of memory, storytelling and identity develop in their fiction. For the narrative voices in these works, the past is embedded in the present and a wider cultural history is written over with personal significance. The act of storytelling shapes the characters' lives, letting them rewrite the past and be haunted by it. Storytelling becomes an existential act of everyday connection among ordinary people and daily (often unrecognized) acts of heroism.
Sharon Selby is a professor of literature and writing at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Autobiographical Memory and Narrative IdentityOne. Grounded in an Ephemeral Past: The Works of Alistair MacLeodTwo. Beyond Self-Representation: Michael Ondaatje’s Artists (Billy the Kid, Buddy Bolden, the English patient, and Anna)Three. Speaking for a Nation’s People: Jane Urquhart’s VisionFour. The Weight of the Wor(l)d: Memory and Survival in Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie and the MaddAddam TrilogyFive. Decolonizing Through Story: Drew Hayden Taylor “Rights” the National NarrativeConclusion: Evolving Narratives and the Power of StoryChapter NotesWorks CitedIndex
