Research Paper on:
Canadian Literature and Violence

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of Violence in Canadian Literature By: C.B. Rodgers - November 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Overview  of Three Canadian Writers A title referring to violence in Canadian literature is likely to cause a reader to take a moment and ask "violence"? Unfortunately, they might also ask  "Canadian literature"? Regardless of widespread assumptions that the idea of violence in Canada necessarily has something to do with hockey sticks, the writers of modern Canada present a very different  picture. Virtually all of Margaret Atwoods book carry a sense of fearfulness or foreboding while presenting the story of a character, generally a woman, who is caught in a secret  life that essentially holds her in captivity to one who is both her captor and her obsession. Likewise, the work of Sylvia Fraser in which she presents the horrors of  her sexual abuse, as a child, by her father. She explains that in order to cope with such a abusive situation, she had to "split into two" in order to  survive. Stories of child abuse, especially sexual abuse, virtually always establishes a reality for the reader that is both unbelievable and indisputable. The very nature of such a situation requires  that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could have survived. And, Marie-Claire Blaiss 1966 novel, "A Season in the life of Emanuel,"  presents a world in which the average reader is unlikely to have any real connection or understanding and, as a result, must rely on the observations of Blais in order  to either experience or interpret the world she presents. Her own experiences as being openly lesbian are likely to have played an important role in her interpretation and expression of