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

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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.

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ISBN:

9780887557026
0887557023

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-233) and index.

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