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,Revisiting the Canon, Rewriting History: Sena Jeter Naslund’s ,hallenged by feminist scholars. It discusses the novel’s relationship not only to Herman Melville’s . but to the account of the shipwreck of the whaler Essex which was Melville’s own inspiration. Relating the novel’s protagonist Una to the historical and geographical context provided by contemporary

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Home and Away: Jane Urquhart, ,lonisation, suggesting how easily the colonised can become the coloniser. . uses a complex narrative structure to show the interaction of past and present, of the indigenous people and the incomers, and interweaves Celtic myth with that of the First Nations to explore the many meanings of being home

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The Female Epic: Antonine Maillet, , of female adventure transcends the language barrier. . is in part a response to the poet Longellow’s poem, . hugely popular for its role in contributing to Acadian identity. But Maillet replaces the stereotypically female heroine Evangeline with a middle-aged widow with the determination and courag

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,Conquistador’s Moll or Mother of the Nation? Laura Esquivel, ,ranslator for the Spanish Conquistadors. Setting the rich cultural traditions that Malinche was born into, with their roots in the natural world, against the militaristic world of the Conquistadors driven by a lust for gold, Esquivel shows this culture clash to also be a clash between patriarchal an

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The Female Conquistador: Isabel Allende, ,chetypically masculine roles when she effectively becomes a soldier as she travels with field marshal?Pedro de Valdivia?and his men through South America, subjugating the indigenous people as they go. Allende uses Inés to explore the tensions and contradictions in her position as one of the privileg