دانلود کتاب New World Myth : Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction

In this comparative study of six Canadian novels, Marie Vautier examines reworkings of myth in the postcolonial context. While myths are frequently used in literature as transhistorical master narratives, she argues that these novels destabilize the traditional function of myth in their self-conscious re-examination of historical events from a postcolonial perspective. Through detailed readings of Francois Barcelo's "La Tribu", George Bowering's "Burning Water", Jacques Godbout's "Les Tetes a Papineau", Joy Kogawa's "Obasan", Jovette Marchessault's "Comme Une Enfant de la Terre" and Rudy Wiebe's "The Scorched-Wood People", Vaultier situates New World myth within the broader contexts of political history and of classical, biblical and historical myths.

Vautier's emphasis on de-constructing, de-centering, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study illustrates how New World myth narrators have questioned the past in the present and carried out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.