Truth Matters by Lambert Zuidervaart & Allyson Carr & Matthew Klaassen & Ronnie Shuker

Author:Lambert Zuidervaart & Allyson Carr & Matthew Klaassen & Ronnie Shuker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MQUP
Published: 2013-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1 Margaret Atwood, In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1997), 37.

2 Ibid., 38–9. See also Deborah Bowen’s exploration of the relationship between historical fiction, truth, and biblical meta-narrative in Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010), 59–98.

3 Particularly relevant here is Linda Hutcheon’s “Historiographic Metafiction,” in The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988), 61–77. Also significant in this postmodern, postcolonial approach is Herb Wyile’s Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002), in which Wyile investigates the epistemological skepticism present in the genre. A recent study emphasizes the Canadian in Canadian historical fiction: the essays in National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada, ed. Andrea Cabajsky and Brett Josef Grubisic (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010) address “the role that history and fiction have played in the formation of national identity” (vii).

4 This is not to say that for Ricoeur meaning resides only in language. Works such as The Symbolism of Evil and The Rule of Metaphor posit certain forms of pre-linguistic meaning.

5 Paul Ricoeur, “The Poetics of Language and Myth,” interview by Richard Kearney, Dialogues with Continental Thinking: Conversations with Contemporary Thinkers (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), 110.

6 Ibid., 124. The italics are Ricoeur’s.

7 Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, vol. 3, trans. Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 109.

8 Ibid., 119.

9 Ibid., 120.

10 Ibid., 99.

11 Ibid., 100.

12 Ibid., 99.

13 Ibid., 128.

14 Ibid., 134.

15 Ibid., 139.

16 Ibid., 114.

17 Ricoeur, “Poetics,” 104. “To give people back a memory,” continues Ricoeur, “is also to given them back a future” (109), thus emphasizing the ontological potential of narrative. As he argues in Time and Narrative, within this system of symbolic functioning, ancestors become “the icon of the immemorial” and descendants “the icon of hope” (3:116).

18 Ricoeur, “Poetics,” 111.

19 Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, 159.

20 Ibid., 172.

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid., 176–7.

23 Ibid., 173.

24 Paul Ricoeur, History and Truth, trans. Charles A. Kelbley (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1965), 93.

25 Ibid., 173.

26 Ibid.

27 Ibid., 181.

28 Ibid., 182.

29 Ibid., 176.

30 Ricoeur, “On Narrative Imagination,” Dialogues with Continental Thinking, 50.

31 Ibid., 51.

32 Ricoeur, History and Truth, 174.

33 Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, 142.

34 Ibid., 157.

35 Ibid., 102.

36 Ricoeur, “On Narrative Imagination,” 50.

37 Ibid., 49–50.

38 Ricoeur, “Poetics,” 106.

39 Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, 190.

40 Joy Kogawa, Obasan (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 1981).

41 Timothy Findley, The Wars (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005).

42 Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman’s Boy (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996).

43 Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (New York: Vintage International, 1992). Also of interest are Ondaatje’s Coming through Slaughter and In the Skin of a Lion. For additional examples by other authors, see George Bowering’s Burning Water, Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café, Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic, and John Steffler’s The Afterlife of George Cartwright.

44 Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (London: Pandora, 2001), 2–3.

45 Ibid.

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