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This study provides a close reading and a critical analysis of four novels by contemporary Canadian women writing in English : Joy Kogawa's Obasan (1983), Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe (1990), Kristjana Gunnar's The Prowler (1989), and Aritha van Herk's No Fixed Address (1987). The analysis draws on a combination of post-structuralist, post-colonial and feminist working concepts and perspectives. It is predicated on the assumption of the fundamental interconnectedness of all aspects of human knowledge, and partakes of the process of intertextuality affecting our own contemporary experience of the world. Recent fiction by women, but also feminist and postcolonial theories of meaning and textuality, have had an important share in changing our views of the world/text from a closed structure to a constant process of cultural/textual interaction between two or more cultures/texts The novels examined here provide rich sites for the exploration of these changing paradigms and their exegesis will offer alternative ways of dealing with language, history, gender, fiction, text and reality in Canada and elsewhere.

Canadese letterkunde --- Littérature canadienne --- 820-31 "19" --- 820 <71> --- Engelse literatuur: novel; roman--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820-31 "19" Engelse literatuur: novel; roman--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Canadian fiction --- Intertextuality --- Women and literature --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Canadian fiction (English) --- Canadian literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Gunnars, Kristjana, --- Kogawa, Joy. --- Lee, Sky. --- Van Herk, Aritha, --- Women authors --- Van Herk, Aritha, 1954- No fixed address --- Gunnars, Kristjana, 1948- Prowler --- Lee, Sky. Disappearing moon cafe --- Kogawa, Joy. Obasan