(More) The famous problem of Canadian Literature in the contemporary critical landscape is how it, as an institution, denies all but certain kinds of identities. This thesis studies two Canadian novels, Marian Engel’s Bear (1976) and Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin (1998), and argues that they employ and subvert specifically Canadian national. Such a discourse of inclusivity relies on subsuming difference as accidental aspects of a shared identity: that of the national subject. Alexander Beecroft suggests that a national literature, through its attempts to locate and articulate a communal identity and a notion of fellow-feeling, curates characteristics among members of previously numerous groups which can function to denote nationalistic identity. Master's Programme: Literature - Culture - Media Abstract The famous problem of Canadian Literature in the contemporary critical landscape is how it, as an institution, denies all but certain kinds of identities. "Words Hide Truth": National belonging in Marian Engel’s Bear and Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin
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