One of the few books on contemporary Native writing in Canada, Helen Hoy's absorbing and provocative work raises and addresses questions around 'difference' and the locations of cultural insider and outsider in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Drawing on post-colonial, feminist, post-structuralist and First Nations theory, it explores the problems involved in reading and teaching a variety of works by Native women writers from the perspective of a cultural outsider. In each chapter, Hoy examines a particular author and text in order to address some of the basic theoretical questions of reader location, cultural difference, and cultural appropriation, finally concluding that these Native authors have refused to be confined by identity categories such as 'woman' or 'Native,' and have themselves provided a critical voice guiding how their texts might be read and taught.
Hoy has written a thoughtful and original work, combining theoretical and textual analysis with insightful and witty personal and pedagogical narratives, as well as poetic and critical epigraphs - the latter of which function as counterpoint to the scholarly argument. The analysis is self-reflexive, making issues of difference and power ongoing subjects of investigation, which interact with the literary texts themselves, and which render the readings more clearly local, partial, and accountable. This highly imaginative volume will appeal to Canadianists, feminists, and the growing number of scholars in the field of Native Studies.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-250) and index
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- 813/.50897071
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- 21
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- 0802035191 9781442675896
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- PR9188
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- H69 2001eb
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- 1 electronic text (x, 264 p.)
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 10
- Introduction 14
- 1 'Reading from the Inside Out': Jeannette Armstrong's Slash 43
- 2 'When You Admit You're a Thief': Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths's: The Book of Jessica 59
- 3 'Listen to the Silence': Ruby Slipperjack's: Honour the Sun 75
- 4 'Nothing but the Truth': Beatrice Culleton's: In Search of April Raintree 92
- 5 'And Use the Words That Were Hers': Beverly Hungry Wolf's: The Ways of My Grandmothers 116
- 6 'Because You Aren't Indian': Lee Maracle's Ravensong 138
- 7 'How Should I Eat These?' Eden Robinson's: Traplines 164
- In/conclusion 194
- NOTES 214
- WORKS CITED 242
- INDEX 262
- A 262
- B 263
- C 263
- D 265
- E 266
- F 266
- G 266
- H 267
- I 267
- J 268
- K 268
- L 269
- M 269
- N 270
- O 270
- P 270
- Q 271
- R 271
- S 272
- T 274
- U 274
- V 275
- W 275
- Y 275
- Z 275