Magic weapons : Aboriginal writers remaking community after residential school / Sam McKegney ; foreword by Basil H. Johnston
- Author:
- McKegney, Sam, 1976-
- Published:
- Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2007]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2007
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- Introduction -- Acculturation through education : the inherent limits of 'assimilationist' policy -- Reading residential school : native literary theory and the survival narrative -- "We have been silent too long" : linguistic play in Anthony Apakark Thrasher's prison writings -- "Analyze, if you wish, but listen" : the affirmatist literary method of Rita Joe -- From trickster poetics to transgressive politics : substantiating survivanace in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the fur queen -- Conclusion : Creative interventions in the residential school legacy.
- Subject(s):
- Canadian literature—Indian authors—History and criticism
- Canadian literature—Inuit authors—History and criticism
- Indians in literature
- Inuit in literature
- Off-reservation boarding schools—Canada
- Indians of North America—Canada—Ethnic identity
- Inuit—Canada—Ethnic identity
- Indians of North America—Cultural assimilation—Canada
- Inuit—Cultural assimilation—Canada
- ISBN:
- 9780887557026
0887557023 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-233) and index.
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