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Hearts of stone: quarrying the Canadian Shield in recent Canadian women's writing.
From: International Fiction Review
Date: 20060101
Author:Stovel, Nora Foster
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916"
Take away our hearts o' stone, and give us hearts o' flesh!
Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock
Recent Canadian women writers quarry the human heart, but find stone where flesh should be. The Canadian Shield--a Precambrian rock formation that composes nearly half the Canadian landmass, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean through the prairie provinces and from the Arctic Ocean to the United States and beyond--provides a literal landscape and a rich lode of metaphor for writers to ...
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