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The article focuses on the political, social, and literary circumstances that conditioned the literature produced and, in turn, contributed to understandings and valuations of literature during the period 1965-1980. It is stated that the era is uniquely important to Canadian literature because widespread changes in political understandings of national and female identities contextualized the appreciation of literature published during this time. Identity politics in this era was made up of two dominant social movements--Canadian nationalism and second-wave feminism--that prompted Canadians and women to think of themselves differently.