Letters From An Other
- Publisher
- Three O'Clock Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1989
- Category
- Letters
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889611269
- Publish Date
- Dec 1989
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
"The Quebec Roxane describes to her best friend Sarah in these thirteen letters is a territory fast taking on new shapes. Its geographical space extends from Montreal through the bucolic islands of the Saint Lawrence as far as New York; its cultural space is dominated by literary modernism and feminism. Most significantly, Roxane's map of artistic practices is given against a backdrop of the power relationships which sustain them: the tensions between small and large cultures, the inequalities of Quebec and English Canada, the subtle conflicts which mark the continued subordination of women in a supposedly emancipated society. Her letters address not only that persistent puzzle what is Quebec? but - a question certainly as difficult - what is culture today?"-Sherry Simon, Concordia University
About the authors
Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood’s translations include Mauve Desert, Heroine, Letters From An Other and Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon.
