“And I May Mutate into a Matriarch”: Aging, Crisis, and Speculative Fiction in Margaret Laurence’s The Fire-Dwellers

Author Biography

Sara Jamieson teaches Canadian literatures in the Department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her research on representations of midlife in twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction encompasses the
work of Richard B. Wright, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Joe Ollmann, and Ann-Marie MacDonald.