Native Writers and Canadian Writing is a co-publication with Canadian Literature -- CanadaÂ?s foremost literary journal -- of a special double issue which focuses on literature by and about CanadaÂ?s Native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both Native and non-Native writers. These not only reflect the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing but also direct the reader to the traditional literature from which it springs and which has been largely misunderstood by the non- Native community -- myths, rituals, and songs having been interpreted more often as artistic Â?curiositiesÂ? rather than the masterworks of a different culture. Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Native people in literature touch on works which range from the eighteenth-century journals of explorer Alexander Mackenzie, to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, and to early writers in Canada such as historian-humourist Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C810.9/897
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780774854474 0774803703
- LCCN
- PR9185.6.I5
- LCCN Item number
- N38 1990eb
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- 1 electronic text (306 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00327114 (OCoLC)144143906 (CaOOCEL)404302
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Editorial: Learning to Listen 9
- Articles 15
- One Generation from Extinction 15
- Reassessing Traditional Inuit Poetry 24
- That Also Is You: Some Classics of Native Canadian Literature 37
- "A Parcel of Whelps": Alexander Mackenzie among the Indians 54
- Savage, Degenerate, and Dispossessed: Some Sociological, Anthropological, and Legal Backgrounds to the Depiction of Native Peoples in Early Long Poems on Canada 81
- Red & White Men; Black, White & Grey Hats: Literary Attitudes to the Interaction between European and Native Canadians in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 97
- Mourning Dove's Canadian Recovery Years, 1917-1919 118
- Contemporary Native Women's Voices in Literature 129
- Equality among Women 138
- Jeannette Armstrong & the Colonial Legacy 143
- Yin Chin 161
- Upsetting Fake Ideas: Jeannette Armstrong's "Slash" and Beatrice Culleton's "April Raintree" 173
- The Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers 188
- Border Work 234
- A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King 248
- Lines and Circles: The "Rez" Plays of Tomson Highway 259
- The Baffin Writers' Project 271
- Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse 278
- The Prophecy 296
- Poems 14
- Artifacts 14
- Negative of You 21
- Shawnandithit (Last of the Beothuks) 22
- The Blizzard Moans My Name 23
- A Prairie Museum 34
- Belugas 35
- Four Dancers 36
- Chewing the Pieces 53
- Pakashgoogan 79
- Shoreline, Old Lake Iroquois 96
- Nightmare Comfort 117
- Klu'skap-o'kom 127
- The Dream Was the Answer 128
- Nostalgia 137
- The Red in Winter 141
- "Progress" 142
- Earth Nites 158
- I'm Not in Charge of This Ritual 159
- Big Steve 166
- Down on the Yucatan 167
- Shaman and the Raven 170
- Yin Chin 161
- The Wet 186
- Working on Titles 186
- Eagles Caught Salmon 187
- Song on Starling Street 231
- Breakdown Moon 232
- Blue Moon 233
- Inukshuk 246
- Coyote Learns to Whistle 255
- Coyote Sees the Prime Minister 257
- Coyote Goes to Toronto 257
- The City on the Hill 270
- The Dancing Sun 277
- The Water Moved an Instant 277
- April 23,1985: Aboriginal Rights Conference 295
- Review Articles 299
- No Writing at All Here: Review Notes on Writing Native 299
- Sucking Kumaras 306
