[Audio Interview with Thomas King]
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Author/Creator
[Thomas King
Don Swaim]
Description
Author discusses his writing.
Duration: 39: 26.
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.
Focuses on several facets of Emily Carr's book Klee Wyck: the feminist tone; the effect of modernism on native life; examination of the sketches; the message of disintegration, loss and of hope.
Discusses the period in Christine Quintasket's life when her health improved and she regained the strength to pursue her ambitions as a writer.