Title: The Native in literature /
Authors: King, Thomas, 1943-; Calver, Cheryl Dawnan.; Hoy, Helen, 1949-
Publisher: ECW Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Indians in literature Congresses.; Indians of North America Folklore.; Indians of North America Folklore Congresses.
Contents: Introduction / Thomas King. -- Romantic nationalism and the image of native people in contemporary English-Canadian literature / Margery Fee. -- Imagining natives: white perspectives on native peoples / Eli Mandel. -- An intolerable burden of meaning: native peoples in white fiction / Gordon Johnston. -- Fear and temptation: images of indigenous peoples in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand literature / Terry Goldie. -- Visions and revisions: contemporary writers and exploration accounts of indigenous peoples / Leslie Monkman. -- Religious images of the non-whites in English-Canadian literature: Charles Gordon and Rudy Wiebe / Terrence Craig. -- THe Metis in the ficton of Margaret Laurence: from outcast to consort / Angelika Maeser-Lemieux. -- Listening for the silence: native women's traditoinal narratives / Barbara Godard. -- Oral influences in contemporary Inuit literature / Robin McGrath. -- The imposition of western definitions of literature on Indian oral traditions / George L. Cornell. -- Making faces: defiance and humour in Campbell's Halfbreed and Welch's Winter in the blood / Kate Vangen. -- Ti-Jean and the seven-headed dragon: instances of native American assimiliation of European folklore / Jarold Ramsey.