Title :

Boring Gravel: Literary Earth, Alice Munro's Geolithic

Author(s) :

Dutoit, Thomas [Auteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]

Journal title :

Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies : Revue interdisciplinaire des études canadiennes en France
Canadian-ness of Alice Munro; Visibility of Canadian Literature

Pages :

77-110

Publisher :

Association française des études canadiennes (AFEC)

Publication date :

2015-02

ISSN :

0153-1700

English keyword(s) :

deconstruction
geography
Alice Munro
geology
de-sedimentation
gravel
Pre-Cambrian Shield
geoliterature
arrangement
boring

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures

English abstract : [en]

Canadian in Munro's writing is the relation of the world (farms, towns, roads, cities) and the earth (the swathe of North America of land, lakes, rivers called Canada). Obsessed with comings and goings, inscriptions and ...
Show more >Canadian in Munro's writing is the relation of the world (farms, towns, roads, cities) and the earth (the swathe of North America of land, lakes, rivers called Canada). Obsessed with comings and goings, inscriptions and erasures, Munro's writing is particularly Canadian, we submit, by dint of the grating against each other of two fundamental and apparently opposed forces. Her collections of stories attest a conception of geological time upon which is placed a shallow and ephemeral architectural world the traces of which she passionately attempts to secure from their fast-approaching disappearance. Munro tirelessly de-sediments such cryptic enclosures, shakes their secret events out into raw exposure, affirms life's indestructible after-life. Munro's writes environment, yoking Canadian place in the Anthropocene (the era of the human in geological time) with literary space-time in imagination (the epoch of the trace).Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Comment :

This file is a pre-print version of the published article; it in fact is correct in terms of punctuation, more so than the published version.

Collections :

• Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - ULR 4074

Source :

Harvested from HAL