Heart of a Stranger

by Laurence, Margaret; Stovel, Nora Foster

• ISBN13: 9780888644077
• ISBN10: 0888644078
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alberta Pr

Summary

Between 1964 and 1975, Margaret Laurence wrote not only her Manawaka cycle, but also this collection of essays chronicling her travels and revealing how they inspired her fiction. Nora Foster Stovel's new introduction explores how Laurence's experiences in Somalia, Nigeria, Greece, Egypt, England and Scotland influenced and informed her Canadian fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on the text
Heart of a traveller : Margaret Laurence's life journey
Foreword	p. 3
A place to stand on	p. 5
Sayonara, Agamemnon	p. 11
The very best intentions	p. 23
The poem and the spear	p. 31
The epic love of Elmii Bonderii	p. 59
Good morning to the grandson of Ramesses the second	p. 67
Captain pilot Shawkat and Kipling's ghost	p. 85
The wild blue yonder	p. 101
Put out one or two more flags	p. 107
Road from the isles	p. 113
Down east	p. 123
Inside the idiot box	p. 129
I am a taxi	p. 135
Living dangerously... by mail	p. 141
The shack	p. 147
Upon a midnight clear	p. 151
Open letter to the mother of Joe Bass	p. 157
Man of our people	p. 161
Where the world began	p. 169
Acknowledgements	p. 175
Tribalism as us versus them	p. 179
A gabay in h	p. 189
To a faithless friend	p. 193
Annotations	p. 199
Index to heart of a stranger	p. 227
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