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Great Dames is a Collection of Short Biographical sketches memoirs and essaysabout Canadian women of the twentieth century from all walks of life. Thefifteen essays by such contributors as Aritha van Herk Carolyn Strange andPatricia Smart represent many theoretical and autobiographical approaches tofeminist biography including chronological narrative thematic explorationmultiple biography conversations between biographer and subject interviewsdiaries and fictional accounts.While attempting to capture the meaning of the ordinary lives of extraordinarywomen the collection also sets out to explore the possibilities ofchallenging perhaps even subverting the traditional view of lifewriting asan endeavour to describe interpret and thereby fix in time the publiccareers of public men.The subjects from Mennonite refugee women to an Ojibwa ethnologist were feltto be unlikely candidates for a longer biography and were also chosen in anattempt to address perceived gaps in regional class racial and disciplinaryrepresentation in lifewriting.Together the essays reveal that the content form and perspective ofbiography is now bound only by the creativity research energy and taste ofthe biographer. «
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