| The course will examine the fiction written in the Maritime region in the twentieth century and concentrate on texts written after the Second World War. We will examine some of the historical paradigms which have been used to interpret the Maritime region, particularly the notion of economic underdevelopment, and we will attempt to situate the fiction of the region in a larger historical and cultural framework. Through a survey of well-known and less widely read novels and short stories, we will study the gradual emergence of the form of realism, the diminished interest in historical romance, the belated development of a strong woman’s voice, and the difficulties associated with the study of the region’s minority literatures. |
