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Introduction I. The Rag Rug : Intertextual Motifs 1. Intertextual ironies 2. American echoes 3. English echoes 4. Looking for a Room of One's Own II. Roots: Mapping & Reterritorializing Ontario 1. Journeys within 2. Cracks, sunlight and shadows: defamiliarizing the familiar 3. Boundaries 4. Ontario revisited and the wilderness III. Time Frames 1. Remembrance of things past 2. Stepping out of time: "Dance of the Happy Shades" 3. The context of the thirties, history and "her-story" IV. Gothic and Grotesque: Domestic Slippages 1. Spatial slippage 2. Warped fairy tales 3. Grotesque bodies 4. The return of the Gothic: the Gothic Double 5. Shades, blinds and cracks: haunted houses and inner jails V. Family Relationships 1. Mothers and daughters: Sounds and silence 2. Mothers and daughters: Dressing for the part 3. Dysfunctional surrogate mothers 4. Fathers and daughters 5. Brothers and sisters VI. Voices and Typography: Munro's layers of speech 1. Reproducing "the way people speak" 2. Dialogue as conflict: "The Office" 3. The other side of speech: silence 4. Italics and echoes: "The Peace of Utrecht" 5. Songs 6. Storytelling VII. The Quest for Identity 1. Gendered identity 2. Gendered bodies and the tension between masculine and feminine 3. The plight of the writing housewife 4. Resisting intrusion VIII. Endings, Epiphanies and Strategies of Resilience 1. Epihanies 2. Strategies of resilience Conclusion: 1. Conclusion on Dance of the Happy Shades 2. Picking up the threads: beyond Dance of the Happy Shades 3. Further readings: echoes between Dance and later stories

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