Magic weapons
Subtitle: Aboriginal writers remaking community after residential school
By: Sam McKegney ; foreword by Basil H. Johnston
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Winnipeg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780887557026
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Indian authors; Internats pour Indiens d'Amérique; Auteurs inuit; Cultural assimilation; Auteurs indiens d'Amérique; Indiens d'Amérique; Inuit authors; Identité ethnique; Acculturation; Indians of North America; History and criticism; Histoire et critique; Littérature canadienne-anglaise; Inuit; Off-reservation boarding schools; Residential schools; Canadian literature; Inuit in literature; Indians in literature; Internats pour Inuit
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Acculturation through education : the inherent limits of 'assimilationist' policy; title: Reading residential school : native literary theory and the survival narrative; title: "We have been silent too long" : linguistic play in Anthony Apakark Thrasher's prison writings; title: "Analyze, if you wish, but listen" : the affirmatist literary method of Rita Joe; title: From trickster poetics to transgressive politics : substantiating survivanace in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the fur queen; title: Conclusion : Creative interventions in the residential school legacy.