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Literary Criticism Canadian

Unexpected Fictions

New Icelandic Canadian Writing

edited by Krisjana Gunnars

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1989
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888011442
    Publish Date
    Jan 1989
    List Price
    $10.95

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Description

These nine short stories are written by well-known authors such as W.D. Valgardson, Martha Brooks, David Arnason, Kristjana Gunnars and Betty Jane Wylie. The collection showcases the work of the prairie Icelandic community and is wide-ranging, contemporary, and highly entertaining. The fictions are sometimes comic and sometimes melancholy, in the best tradition of a "round of storytelling." Gunnars' introduction raises questions about the function of fiction and the issues of ethnic writing.

About the author

Kristjana Gunnars was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1948. She immigrated to Canada in 1969, after doing undergraduate work in Oregon. She has lived in rural BC, Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Regina, where she took an MA in literature. Gunnars worked as a schoolteacher in rural Iceland, and taught English at the University of Regina and at the University of Alberta. Her poems have appeared in various journals in Canada and the US.

 

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