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Author:

McKegney, Sam, 1976-

Title:

Magic weapons : Aboriginal writers remaking community after residential school / Sam McKegney ; foreword by Basil H. Johnston.

Publisher:

University of Manitoba Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xviii, 241 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Canadian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Canadian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Inuit in literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada.
Indians of North America--Canada--Residential schools.
Inuit--Canada--Residential schools.
Indians of North America--Canada--Ethnic identity.
Inuit--Canada--Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Canada.
Inuit--Cultural assimilation--Canada.
Littérature canadienne-anglaise--Histoire et critique.--Histoire et critique.
Littérature canadienne-anglaise--Histoire et critique.--Histoire et critique.
Internats pour Indiens d'Amérique--Canada.
Internats pour Inuit--Canada.
Indiens d'Amérique--Canada--Identité ethnique.
Inuit--Canada--Identité ethnique.
Indiens d'Amérique--Acculturation--Canada.
Inuit--Acculturation--Canada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.

Contents:

Acculturation through education : the inherent limits of 'assimilationist' policy -- Reading residential school : native literary theory and the survival narrative -- "We have been silent too long" : linguistic play in Anthony Apakark Thrasher's prison writings -- "Analyze, if you wish, but listen" : the affirmatist literary method of Rita Joe -- From trickster poetics to transgressive politics : substantiating survivanace in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the fur queen -- Conclusion : Creative interventions in the residential school legacy.

ISBN:

0887557023
9780887557026

LCCN:

2008360713

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)