The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction

by Linda Hutcheon

This book studies the work of some of Canada's most prominent fiction writers in the context of postmodernism. Hutcheon shows that in Canada, this cultural phenomenon has not only found particularly fertile ground on which to develop but has also taken a distinctive form. She examines
contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, Chris Scott, Susan Swan, Audrey Thomas, Aritha van Herk, and others.

Genres: Nonfiction, Theory, Canadian Literature, Literary Criticism, Canada

246 pages, Paperback

First published April 13, 1989

Reviews

[Pavlina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book comes in handy as a source on CanLit of 1970s and 1980s. Although it contains pretty much information which could be found in other Hutcheon's books on postmodernism (namely The Politics of Postmodernism), this one has a sharper focus. It also contains a Hutcheon's paper on the novel from The Literary History of Canada.

[LEwis1203]

i want to read this book for my research.