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Maps Of Difference

Wendy Roy

2005287 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005McGill-Queen's University Press · 296 pages · ENGISBN 9780773572676
  • 2005McGill-Queen's University Press · 287 pages · ENGISBN 9780773528666

"In her study of women's travel writing in Canda, Wendy Roy questions the notion of travel narratives as uncomplicated, objective accounts. She examines the accounts of Anna Jameson in Upper Canada (1838), Mina Benson Hubbard in Labrador (1908), and Margaret Laurence in Somalia (1963). Given their disparate geographical and historical contexts, Jameson, Hubbard, and Laurence drew very different maps of the political, cultural, and physical features of the areas they visited and of their own social and cultural positions. Maps of Difference reveals, however, that all three woman shared an anti-racist philosophy and an acute awareness of women's position in their own societies and in the societies to which they travelled."--BOOK JACKET.

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