Mavis Gallant's World of Women: A Feminist Perspective

Authors

  • Janice Kulyk Keefer Université Sainte-Anne

Abstract

This article presents the oeuvre of Mavis Gallant as creative of a fictive " world of women" which can be read as an imaginative recording of--and recoiling from--the North American Feminine Mystique. By analysing a representative number of Gallant's fictions produced over the last thirty years, and by examining her views on women and society as expressed in interviews and in her non-fiction works, the article explores the questions of to what degree Gallant can be considered a feminist writer; in what manner her fiction has been misconstrued and delimited by the "pro-masculine" critic; and of what enduring value Gallant's writing--which sets strict limits on women's possibilities of escaping from their "kitchen in a slum"--can have for feminists

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Published

1985-04-01

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (1985)

Section

Original Research

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