This study explores the interrelations between
narrative and history in two Canadian and Quebecois novels.
Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family (1982) . Tracing narrative techniques
in general and intertextuality in particular, the thesis
reveals postmodern concerns in re-writing history. Both
Ondaatje's and Poulin's novel refract the master narrative of
History and its closed linear nature into multiple
discontinuous histories. In accordance with recent
historiography. they further unmask the textuality. and hence
ideological embeddedness, of our knowledge about the past.
Both exploiting and contesting historical authority, Poulin
and Ondaatje inquire into the relations between art, history.
and the structure of social and cultural power. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/15661 |
| Date | 07 1900 |
| Creators | Kotte, Claudia |
| Contributors | Hyman, Dr. Roger, English |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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