Morality Destabilised: Reading Emma Lee Warrior’s "Compatriots"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann McKinnon
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1998, pp. [53]-66
Description
Discusses the attitudes of the two European characters in the novel which allow them to appropriate some elements of Aboriginal culture while discarding those that they view as unimportant or that do not fit with their perceptions the "other". The author links this to the pitfalls associated with non-Aboriginal readers response to Aboriginal literature.
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