Title How should I read these? : native women writers in Canada / Helen Hoy

Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 264 pages) Contents Introduction -- Reading from the inside out : Jeannette Armstrong's Slash -- When you admit you're a thief : Maria Campbell and Linda Griffith's The book of Jessica -- Listen to the silence : Ruby Slipperjack's Honour the sun -- Nothing but the truth : Beatrice Culleton's In search of April Raintree -- And use the words that were hers : Beverly Hungry Wolf's The ways of my grandmothers -- Because you aren't Indian : Lee Maracle's Ravensong -- How should I eat these? : Eden Robinson's Traplines -- In/conclusion Summary "One of the few books on contemporary Native writing in Canada, Halen Hoy's absorbing and provocative work raises and addresses questions around 'difference' and the locations of cultural insider and outsider in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Drawing on postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist, and First Nations theory, it explores the problems involved in reading and teaching a variety of works by Native women writers from the perspective of a cultural outsider. In each chapter, Hoy examines a particular author and text in order to address some of the basis theoretical questions of reader location, cultural difference, and cultural appropriation, finally concluding that these Native authors have refused to be confined by identity categories such as 'women' or 'Native' and have themselves provided a critical voice guiding how their texts might be read and taught." "Hoy has written a thoughtful and original work, combining theoretical and textual analysis with insightful and witty personal and pedagogical narratives, as well as poetic and critical epigraphs - the latter of which function as counterpoint to the scholarly argument. The analysis is self-reflective, making issues of difference and power ongoing subjects of investigation that interact with the literary texts themselves and render the readings more clearly local, partial, and accountable. This highly imaginative volume will appeal to Canadianists, feminists, and the growing number of scholars in the field of Native studies."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index Notes Print version record Subject Canadian fiction -- Indian authors -- History and criticism Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Indians of North America -- Canada -- Intellectual life Indian women -- Canada -- Intellectual life Indigenous peoples in literature. Indian women in literature. Indians in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Native American. Canadian fiction Canadian fiction -- Indian authors Canadian fiction -- Women authors Indian women in literature Indians in literature Indians of North America -- Intellectual life Indigenous peoples in literature Women and literature Schriftstellerin Indigenes Volk Frauenliteratur -- englische -- Kanada -- Indianerautorinnen -- Geschichte 20. Jh. Canada Kanada Genre/Form Electronic books e-books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Livres numériques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442675896 1442675896 128201434X 9781282014343

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