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A Madwoman in a Cape Breton Attic: Jane Eyre in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees (1996), an emotionally rich and often surprising and disturbing saga of four generations of the Scottish-Lebanese Piper-Mahmoud family, has so far been interpreted as a Canadian magic realist text, a critique of Canada’s official policy of multiculturalism and a deconstruction of hegemonic discourses about gender and race, and as a demonstration that race is a socially constructed concept, rather than a biologically significant one. None of these interpretations, however, has mentioned the numerous links which MacDonald’s text has with Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, although these have been acknowledged by the author herself in an interview with Eva Tihanyi:
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"The Journal of Commonwealth Literature has long established itself as an invaluable resource and guide for scholars in the overlapping fields of commonwealth Literature, Postcolonial Literature and New Literatures in English. The journal is an institution, a household word and, most of all, a living, working companion." Edward Baugh The Journal of Commonwealth Literature is internationally recognized as the leading critical and bibliographic forum in the field of Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures. It provides an essential, peer-reveiwed, reference tool for scholars, researchers, and information scientists. Three of the four issues each year bring together the latest critical comment on all aspects of ‘Commonwealth’ and postcolonial literature and related areas, such as postcolonial theory, translation studies, and colonial discourse. The fourth issue provides a comprehensive bibliography of publications in the field