The Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.
Article contrasts two novels, Shellshaker by LeAnne Howe and Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko, regarding the treatment of the relationship between Ireland and Native Americans.
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.