The Daughter's Way

The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book considers how elegies inquire into the rhetoric of mourning as it is complicated by father daughter kinship.

Table of Contents for
The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies, by Tanis MacDonald
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Daughter's Way
Introduction: Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and its (Female) Discontents
Chapter One: Elegy and Authority: The Daughter's Way
Part II: Daughters of Jove, Daughters of Job: Canadian Modernism's Bloody-Minded Women
Chapter Two: Two Jove's Daughter: Dorothy Livesay's Elegiac Daughteronomy
Chapter Three: "So much militia routed in the man": P.K. Page's Military Fathers
Chapter Four: "Absence, havoc": Jay Macpherson's Rebellious Daughters
Part III: Differently Conceived Nations: The Mourner's Journey
Chapter Five: "Do what you are good at": Margaret Atwood's Authorizing Elegies
Chapter Six: The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Anne Carson's "The Anthropology of Water"
Chapter Seven: Gateway Politics, Grief Poetics: West Meets West in Kristjana Gunnars' Zero Hour
Part IV: Furies and Filles de la Sagesse: Language and Difference at Century's End
Chapter Eight: Signature, Inheritance, Inquiry: Lola Lemire Tostevin's Cartouches
Chapter Nine: Elegy of Refusal: Erin Mouré's Furious

Conclusion: From the Water
Works Cited
Index