Mirrors and witnesses: Gabrielle Roy, Margaret Atwood, and Le Deuxième Sexe
Abstract
An intertexual, cross-cultural study of the Canadian woman's experience from
the Second War and Post-War era through examination of the existential crisis of the feminine
situation as addressed by the fiction of Mme. Gabrielle Roy (Bonheur d'occasion, 1945, and Rue
Deschambault, 1955), and Ms. Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye, 1985), considered in relation to Le
Deuxième Sexe, (1949) by Mme. Simone de Beauvoir.
Description
Thesis (M.A.) -- Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English