The Unwanted Pregnancy: Descriptions of the Complexities of Abortion by Canadian Writers
| Author: | Gault, Cinda | |
| Year: | 2022 | |
| Pages: | 184 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1019-0 978-1-4955-1019-9 | |
| Price: | $159.95 | |
"Writers may or may not pay attention to the politics of abortion in their times. Nevertheless, a number of Canadian writers have demonstrated a willingness to mine the rich and dramatic cultural associations attached to this controversial procedure for use in their fictional stories. ...An understanding of a given abortion in fiction depends on the writer's construction of value in the story, artistic treatment of this cultural sign and the values a reader brings to the story. While culture is a set of beliefs and practices that circulate among many people, fiction can be a tool by which culture is reworked and reflected by an individual writer for readers to understand life around them potentially in a new way." -from the Author's "Introduction"
Table of Contents
Author's Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: "My Life is Going to be Ruined": Abortion and Class in Hugh Garner's Cabbagetown
Chapter 2: "But What About My Brother?": Abortion and Ethnicity in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Chapter 3: Horsehair and Doilies: Aboration in Marian Engel's No Clouds of Glory
Chapter 4: "Not Even a Hospital": Abortion and Identity Tension in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Chapter 5: Race, Gender, and Abortion in Margaret Laurence's The Diviners
Chapter 6: National Boundaries and Abortion in Richard Wright's Clara Callan
Chapter 7: Race and Abortion in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes
Conclusion
Introduction
Chapter 1: "My Life is Going to be Ruined": Abortion and Class in Hugh Garner's Cabbagetown
Chapter 2: "But What About My Brother?": Abortion and Ethnicity in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Chapter 3: Horsehair and Doilies: Aboration in Marian Engel's No Clouds of Glory
Chapter 4: "Not Even a Hospital": Abortion and Identity Tension in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Chapter 5: Race, Gender, and Abortion in Margaret Laurence's The Diviners
Chapter 6: National Boundaries and Abortion in Richard Wright's Clara Callan
Chapter 7: Race and Abortion in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes
Conclusion