Meneseteung | The Woman Out Back: Alice Munro’s Meneseteung
In the following essay, McCarthy contends that Almeda chooses ‘‘marginality, rather than having it imposed upon her by the Victorian patriarchy.’’
Alice Munro’s short story ‘‘Meneseteung,’’ which Clare Tomalin has described as ‘‘the finest and most intense’’ (quoted by Redekop, Mother) of the stories collected in Friend of My Youth (1990), recounts a narrator’s attempt to ‘‘see’’ someone in the past, and like a number of other contemporary fictions by Canadian women—for example, Carol Shields’ Small Ceremonies (1976), Susan Swan’s The Biggest Modern Woman in the World (1983), Jane Urquhart’s The Whirlpool (1986) and Changing Heaven (1990), Katherine...
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