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Native writers and Canadian writing /

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Native writers and Canadian writing /

[Book]

edited by W.H. New.

Vancouver :

UBC Press,

c1990.

306 p. ;

26 cm.

"Canadian literature, special issue."

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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This collection of Canadian Indian and Inuit writing includes poetry, review articles, discussion of the genre and history and criticism of individual authors.

Canadian literature-- History and criticism.

Canadian literature-- Indian authors-- History and criticism.

Canadian literature-- Indian authors.

Canadian literature-- Inuit authors-- History and criticism.

Canadian literature-- Inuit authors.

Indians in literature.

Indians of North America-- Canada-- Intellectual life.

Indians of North America-- Canada, Literary collections.

Inuit in literature.

Inuit, Literary collections.

Oral tradition-- Canada.

New, W. H., (William Herbert),1938-

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