Title Native writers and Canadian writing / edited by W.H. New

Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages) Contents Articles. One generation from extinction / Basil H. Johnston -- Reassessing traditional Inuit poetry / Robin McGrath -- That also is you : some classics of Native Canadian literature / r Robert Bringhurst -- "A parcel of whelps" : Alexander Mackenzie among the Indians / Parker Duchemin -- Savage, degenerate, and dispossessed : some sociological, anthropological, and legal backgrounds to the depiction of native peoples in early long poems on Canada / D.M.R. Bentley -- Red & white men; black, white & grey hats : literary attitudes to the interaction between European and Native Canadians in the first half of the nineteenth century / Mary Lu Macdonald -- Mourning Dove's Canadian recovery years, 1917-1919 / Alanna Kathleen Brown -- Contemporary native women's voices in literature / Agnes Grant -- Equality among women / Mingwôn Mingwôn (Shirley Bear) -- Jeannette Armstrong & the colonial legacy / Noel Elizabeth Currie -- Yin Chin / Lee Maracle -- Upsetting fake ideas : Jeannette Armstrong's "Slash" and Beatrice Culleton's "April Raintree" / Margery Fee -- The politics of representation : some Native Canadian women writers / Barbara Godard -- Border work / Celia Haig-Brown -- A double-bladed knife : subversive laughter in two stories by Thomas King / Margaret Atwood -- Lines and circles : the "Rez" plays of Tomson Highway / Denis W. Johnston -- The Baffin Writers' Project / Victoria Freeman -- Cultures in conflict : the problem of discourse / Robin Ridington -- The prophecy / Basil H. Johnston Poems. Artifacts / Frank Conibear -- Negative of you ; Shawnandithit (last of the Beothuks) ; The blizzard moans my name / Joan Crate -- A prairie museum ; Belugas ; Four dancers / Jim Tallosi -- Chewing the pieces / David P. Reiter -- Pakashgoogan / Denis Stokes -- Shoreline, old Lake Iroquois / M.T. Kelly -- Nightmare comfort / Ben Abel -- Klu'skap-o'kom ; The dream was the answer / Rita Joe -- Nostalgia ; The red in winter ; "Progress" / Emma Larocque -- Earth nites ; I'm not in charge of this ritual ; Big Steve ; Down on the Yucatan ; Shaman and the raven / Wayne Keon -- Yin Chin / Lee Maracle -- The wet ; Working on titles ; Eagles caught salmon / Bruce Chester -- Song on Starling Street ; Breakdown moon ; Blue moon ; Inukshuk / Daniel David Moses -- Coyote learns to whistle ; Coyote sees the prime minister ; Coyote goes to Toronto ; The city on the hill / Thomas King -- The dancing sun ; The water moved an instant / Alootook Ipellie -- April 23, 1985 : Aboriginal Rights Conference / Mingwôn Mingwôn (Shirley Bear) Review articles. No writing at all here : review notes on writing native / L.R. Ricou -- Sucking kumaras / Gary Boire Summary This collection of Canadian Indian and Inuit writing includes poetry, review articles, discussion of the genre and history and criticism of individual authors Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism Canadian literature -- Inuit authors -- History and criticism Indians of North America -- Canada -- Literary collections Indians of North America -- Canada -- Intellectual life Canadian literature -- History and criticism Canadian literature -- Indian authors. Canadian literature -- Inuit authors. Inuit -- Literary collections Oral tradition -- Canada Indians in literature. Inuit in literature. Eskimos in literature. Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Literary collections Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Intellectual life LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Eskimos in literature Canadian literature Canadian literature -- Indian authors Canadian literature -- Inuit authors Indians in literature Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Intellectual life Inuit Inuit in literature Oral tradition Literatur Aufsatzsammlung Letterkunde. Inheemsen. Engels. Canada Kanada Englisch. Indianer. Eskimo. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary collections Form Electronic book Author New, W. H. (William Herbert), 1938- LC no. 90215019 ISBN 9780774854474 0774854472 7748037116 9787748037116 1283225662 9781283225663 9786613225665 6613225665

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