'This history's only good for anger': Gender and Cultural Memory in Beatrice Chancy

Title'This history's only good for anger': Gender and Cultural Memory in Beatrice Chancy
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2002
AuthorsMaureen Moynagh
JournalSigns: Journal of Women in Culture & Society
Volume28
Issue1
Pagination97
ISSN00979740
Abstract

Explores a genealogy of sex in Canada via a reading of the scripting of cultural memory in George Elliott Clarke's verse drama and opera 'Beatrice Chancy.' Drama's combination of a tale about incest and patricide with the history of slavery in the province of Nova Scotia; Extent to which cultural memory work that redresses sexual and racial violence is necessarily everyone's citizenship.

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Short Title'This history's only good for anger'