American Myth and Anti-Myth in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove Saga
Theses
Author/Creator
Manfred Hacker
Description
Humanities Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Dominguez Hills, 1998.
Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.
Discussion on the effects of colonization, the solutions to a path of healing and the changes required to alter the future.
Discussion of two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which expose the problems, challenges and injustices that Aboriginal people face.
Discusses the period in Christine Quintasket's life when her health improved and she regained the strength to pursue her ambitions as a writer.