Montreal Underground.
This essay explores issues of urban poverty, abject embodiment, and marginalization in Rawi Hage's "Cockroach" (2008) and Heather O'Neill's "Lullabies for Little Criminals" (2006), two recent novels that stage the "underground" as a material reality of dispossession and poverty, as a symbolic space...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 263 - 287 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Automne2013
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