![]() ![]() ![]() What Howells has obviously encountered during her research is the same thing that any student of Canadian literature initially encounters: the preponderance of criticism written to prove/disprove a cultural identity or literary tradition. "Women's stories," as Howells sees them, "could provide models for the story of Canada's national identity." Yet, it is her very insistence upon a national/gender comparison in such chapters as "Canadianness and women's fiction" and her "Introduction" that undermines an otherwise exceedingly readable critical work. Her feminist analysis is appealing in its sensitivity to the similarities between the politics of imperialism and of gender. In Private and Fictional Words, Briton Coral Ann Howells offers what she calls an outsider's view of Canadian women's fiction. ![]()
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