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Gail Scott fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[195-]-2015.

Reference:

R11790-0-9-E, LMS-0253

Type of material:

Art, Photographs, Moving images, Sound recordings, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3672333

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Gail Scott fonds
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Fonds includes:

12 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[195-]-2015.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

6.02 m of textual records and photographs.
34 notebooks.
5 audio cassettes.
10 videocassettes.
141 photographs : b&w and col; 30 negatives; 8 slides.
41 diskettes.
750.21 MB of textual records.
1 USB key

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French
Accession:

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Gail Scott fonds [textual record (electronic)]

Gail Scott fonds [multiple media]
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First accession of the fonds consists of notes, drafts, manuscripts, proofs and manuscripts of translations for works of fiction and non-fiction: Heroine, Main Brides, My Paris, Spare Parts, Spaces Like Stairs; correspondence with publishers, venues for readings, other Canadian and international writers, friends and family; grant applications; transcripts of interviews and recordings of readings, interviews and speeches; work with other writers concerning women's writing and relationship to postmodern theory, including work for La théorie, un dimance as well as essays written for other fora; diaries and datebooks; articles Scott for The Gazette and freelance work, work with Spirale and background material and drafts for a (unpublished) book titled In October's Eye; teaching material; samples of friends' writing, printed material on topics of interest, reviews, agendas, c.v.'s, drawings, photographs, promotional material and posters; correspondence, and creative text for the on-line magazine Narrativity.

Second accession relates predominantly to Scott's work on the novel The Obituary and its publication in Canada and the U.S. as well as the play (Werther, Live on the Radio), articles and speeches she has given and teaching she has done in the period since the last accession (2002-2014). Includes as well drafts for Theory, a Sunday (the English translation of La théorie, d'une dimanche), some drafts and research relating to My Paris as well as republication of her work and earlier teaching, journalism and memorabilia. The correspondence reflects the scholarly interaction with Scott's work and her connections to a number of key avant-garde writers in North America. Her correspondence also demonstrates her public readings, workshops and tours (in particular, her tour in the U.S. for the Dalkey Archives Press version of My Paris). This accession contains the following series':
Series 1. Manuscripts, Notes, Proofs for Works, Series 2. Correspondence: Personal and Professional and Contracts, Series 3. Readings and Professional Appearances, Interviews, Series 4. Feminist Theory and Critical Engagement, Series 5. Diaries, Series 6. Journalism and In October's Eye, Reviews, Early Fiction, Series 7. Memorabilia, Series 8. Teaching, Series 9. Narrativity and Texts Exchanged with/Received from Other Experimental Writers, and Series 10. Translation and Series 11. Study of Scott's work.

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Scott, Gail

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Scott, Gail : Novelist, story writer, essayist and translator, Gail Scott's writing plays across the boundary of English Canadian and French Canadian culture as well as exploring the boundaries of narrative form and theory. She is the author of the novels "Heroine", "My Paris", "Main Brides", the short-story collection "Spare Parts" and essay collection "Spaces Like Stairs". "Main Brides" was selected as one of the 10 best novels of the century by the Montréal Gazette, both "Heroine" and "Main Brides" were shortlisted for the QSPELL award for best novel and "My Paris" was named one of the ten best novels of 1999 by Quill & Quire.
Scott graduated from Ottawa Teachers College and taught for Toronto Public School Board in the early 1960's. Later, she began her writing career as a journalist working for a number of Canada's leading English newspapers (particularly covering Quebec for English Canada). She is a founding member of the Quebec cultural magazine Spirale and worked on Last Post. Scott is also a Governor General's Award nominee for her translation of Michael Delisle's "Le Désarroi du matelot". Her work as an experimental feminist writer led her to work with a group of theorists who published «La théorie, un dimanche» (of which Nicole Brossard and Louky Bersianik were also prominent contributors) and to work on the editorial collective of Tessera (in which Daphne Marlatt, Barbara Godard and Nicole Brossard were also involved). She is a contributing editor of the Narrative Website Magazine put out through the Poetry Centre at San Francisco State University. Scott was involved with the NFB film fragments of a conversation on language. She is also author of "In October's Eye", an as of yet unpublished work on Quebec culture and the "Quiet Revolution". Scott was writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta at Edmonton (1994-1995).

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Textual records; graphic material; sound recordings; moving images (Paper) Finding aid available. Finding aid is in draft form and will only be released on demand. (Restrictions not set)

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General note:

Researchers should be aware that containers for the first accession (2003-04 LMS) are available for ordering through the fonds level record. Containers for the second accession (2015-0908) are available for ordering from series level records.

Arrangement note:

Series' listed in this MIKAN entry are representative of the second accession only. Researchers should consult first accession finding aid for series-level arrangement of the first accession (2003-04 LMS).

Language note:

Some material in French.

Restrictions on access note:

Restricted by creator/donor:

Closed by creator/donor: Diaries and correspondence with Erin Mouré are closed 25 years beyond the death of the author.

Accruals:

Researchers should note that this fonds was acquired in two accessions (2003-04 LMS and 2015-0908). Boxes in the first accession are labelled 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, etc. amounting to 56 containers of textual records. The second accession is labelled with the arch ref. number (R11790) and numbered from Vol. 30 to Vol. 46 (volume 30 being the first subsequent volume number generated by the system).

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VC 125 : 2003-04
VC 126 : 2003-04
VC 127 : 2003-04
VC 128 : 2003-04
VC 129 : 2003-04
VC 130 : 2003-04
VC 131 : 2003-04
VC 132 : 2003-04
VC 133 : 2003-04
VC 134 : 2003-04
CASS 874 : 2003-04
CASS 875 : 2003-04
CASS 876 : 2003-04
CASS 877 : 2003-04
CASS 878 : 2003-04
1 : 2003-04
3 A : 2003-04
3 B : 2003-04
3 C : 2003-04
3 D : 2003-04
3 E : 2003-04
4 : 2003-04
5 : 2003-04
6 A : 2003-04
6 B : 2003-04
6 C : 2003-04
7 A : 2003-04
7 B : 2003-04
8 A : 2003-04
8 B : 2003-04
8 C : 2003-04
8 D : 2003-04
9 : 2003-04
11 : 2003-04
13 A : 2003-04
13 B : 2003-04
13 C : 2003-04
13 D : 2003-04
14 A : 2003-04
14 B : 2003-04
14 C : 2003-04
15 A : 2003-04
15 B : 2003-04
15 C : 2003-04
15 D : 2003-04
16 : 2003-04
17 B : 2003-04
18 B : 2003-04
19 A : 2003-04
19 C : 2003-04
19 D : 2003-04
21 A : 2003-04
21 B : 2003-04
22 : 2003-04
23 : 2003-04
25 : 2003-04
26 : 2003-04
27 : 2003-04
2 A : 2003-04
2 B : 2003-04
28 : 2003-04
10 A : 2003-04
10 B : 2003-04
12 A : 2003-04
12 B : 2003-04
17 A : 2003-04
18 A : 2003-04
19 B : 2003-04
20 A : 2003-04
20 B : 2003-04
29 : 2003-04

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2003-04 LMS
2007-00072-5
2016-00159-3
LMS-0253

Former archival reference no.:

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LMS-0253

Other accession no.:

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2003-04 LMS
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Conditions of access:

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Graphic (art)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0253 2003-04]

[Consultation 90 Open]

22;

[Consultation 90 Open]

6 B;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

Box [LMS-0253] VC 125--VC 134

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0253] CASS 874--CASS 878

[Consultation 90 Open]

Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R11790] 58744AV

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

LMS container [LMS-0253 2003-04]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1;

[Consultation 90 Open]

4--5;

[Consultation 90 Open]

9;

[Consultation 90 Open]

11;

[Consultation 90 Open]

16;

[Consultation 90 Open]

22--23;

[Consultation 90 Open]

25--27;

[Consultation 90 Open]

13 A--13 D;

[Consultation 90 Open]

14 A--14 C;

[Consultation 90 Open]

15 A--15 D;

[Consultation 90 Open]

17 B--18 B;

[Consultation 90 Open]

19 A;

[Consultation 90 Open]

19 C--19 D;

[Consultation 90 Open]

21 A--21 B;

[Consultation 90 Open]

3 A--3 E;

[Consultation 90 Open]

6 A--6 C;

[Consultation 90 Open]

7 A--7 B;

[Consultation 90 Open]

8 A--8 D;

[Consultation 90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0253 2003-04]

[Consultation 10 Closed]

28;

[Consultation 10 Closed]

2 A--2 B;

[Consultation 10 Closed]

LMS container [LMS-0253 2003-04]

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

29;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

10 A--10 B;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

12 A--12 B;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

17 A--18 A;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

19 B;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

20 A--20 B;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Graphic(photo): electronic

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

Textual records: electronic

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

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