When Language is a Delicate Timepiece: Mavis Gallant in conversation with Marta Dvorak

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant (1922–2014)

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Dvorak
Keyword(s):  
Mavis Gallant

scholarly journals Unravelling the mystery of reality : typical Canadian elements in the short stories of Alice Munro

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Aleksander Kustec
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Anne Hebert ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Margaret Laurence ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Mavis Gallant ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Diversity Of Life

The contemporary Canadian short story has a specific place among literary genres in Canadian literature. It culminated in the sixties of this century, when the Canadians looked to their literature with greater interest. Canadian short story writers started to write in a different tone, and showed special interest for new themes. After 1960 authors, such as Henry Kreisel, Norman Levine, Anne Hebert, Mavis Gallant, Ethel Wilson, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Margaret Laurence, Audrey Callahan Thomas, Mordecai Richler, and Alice Munro, refused to use the traditional plot, and showed more interest for characterisation. By using a typical Canadian setting, their stories began to reflect social events of their time. A new awareness of identity stepped forward, and above all their stories became a reflection of the diversity of life in all Canadian provinces. The contemporary Canadian short story writers began to overstep the boundaries of their imagination.

Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant (review)

2004 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 580-581
Author(s):  
Neil Kalman Besner
Keyword(s):  
Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Dvorak
Keyword(s):  
Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant and the Politics of Cruelty

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Condé ◽  
Mary Conde
Keyword(s):  
Mavis Gallant

scholarly journals The true voice of a Canadian expatriate: Mavis Gallant, Home truths (1981)

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Aleksander Kustec
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
The State ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Mavis Gallant ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
At Home

Mavis Gallant is a typical contemporary Canadian short story writer, who has strongly contributed to the formation and the proliferation of the contemporary Canadian short story. Her short story collection Home Truths (1981) is a good example of the exploration of time. Gallant has said on several occasions that she is not particularly interested in discovering typical Canadian elements, but she wishes, above all, to convey the truth. She does not get deeply engaged in the psychological development of her characters, but is interested in specific situations, in reconstructing the state of mind and heart, therefore, we find her writing on the edge of imagination and reality. Home Truths is about identity, alienation, and the importance of memory. These issues still are, 30 years after the publication of this collection, a matter of great concern among Canadians at home and abroad.

scholarly journals Presence and absence of the belated witness in two short stories by Mavis Gallant

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Joseph Ballan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Mavis Gallant ◽  
Concentration Camp Survivors ◽  
Western European ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
Post War ◽  
Holocaust Survival ◽  
Old Friends

This essay extends Michael Levine’s theory of the ‘belated witness’ as an approach to the question of how Holocaust survival is represented in literature, by considering how the absence of such a witness is made perceptible in two stories by Mavis Gallant. Much of Gallant’s short fiction critically analyzes various aspects of post-war western European cultures, but the two stories considered here (‘The Old Place’ and ‘Old Friends’) are unique in her published fiction in that they feature concentration camp survivors as main characters.  According to Levine, the ‘belated witness’ is a narrative figure, different to the survivor him or herself, who enables and supports testimony to trauma. This essay argues that this kind of figure is absent in both stories by Gallant, but that rather than a banal absence (i.e., simply missing from the dramatis personae), this absence is significant (i.e., is the conclusion of Gallant’s analysis).

Mavis Gallant and the Angel of History

1986 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Keefer
Keyword(s):  
Mavis Gallant

scholarly journals Mavis Gallant: A Canadian Short Story Legend

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
Kapilabh Anula
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Mavis Gallant ◽  
Story Writer

Mavis Gallant was a Canadian short story writer. She had faced a very difficult childhood after her father’s demise and her mother’s early remarriage. She was raised as an orphan and had attended seventeen different schools to complete her education. Mavis Gallant later on started writing stories in Canada, and publishing them in Preview, The Standard Magazine, and Northern Review. Some of them were rejected as well but, she was determined to write stories as a full time writer, and therefore she courageously decided to depart from Canada, and settled in Paris until her last breath. This paper is an attempt to show light on her life, the struggles she came across, her writing style and moreover the issues that she cover in her fictional stories for the readers to think and act accordingly in the present times.

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