Permafrost
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Thaler
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 67-83
Description
Short story.
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.
Looks at a fictional visionary's dream about the horrors that await the First Nations of the Americas.
Includes five stories: Raven and Bear; Raven and Fishduck; Raven and Mole; Raven and Skatefish; and Raven and Eagle.
Discussion on Inuit poetry; and the difference between the contemporary Canadian poetic tradition and that of the traditional Inuit.
Investigates how attitudes changed between European and Indigenous Canadians in early literature.
Revised edition.