The ‘Feminine Predicament in the ‘Unabashed Canadian poet’ Dorothy Livesay

The article explores the involvement of the work of Dorothy Livesay to Canadian modernist poetry during the 1940s and to creatively connect female subjectivity to a belated Canadian modernism which included female poets writing about themselves, their own gender and their belonging to Canada. Livesay's early work is motivated on the subjectivity of an emerging female-centred poetics inspired by feminist readings of Modernism.