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Margaret Laurence: The Woman and the Masks
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 45, Number 4, December 2012
- pp. 155-174
- 10.1353/mos.2012.0046
- Article
- Additional Information
Margaret Laurence employs masks, both literal and figurative, in her fiction and nonfiction, both African and Canadian, to convey her characters' personae. The connections between her life and work suggest that her Canadian heroines are facets, or masks, of Laurence's self.