Contemporary challenges
Subtitle: conversations with Canadian native authors
By: [interviews conducted by] Hartmut Lutz.
Publisher: Fifth House Publishers
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Saskatoon, Sask
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Intellectual life.; Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Authors, Indian -- Canada -- Interviews.; Métis -- Intellectual life.; Indians in literature.; Métis in literature.; Métis -- Interviews.
Description: Conversations with eighteen Native writers including their thoughts and concerns about writing, the influence of the oral tradition, what makes them write, the relationship between Native writers and (non-Native) critics, their views of spirituality, the question of "appropriation" of Native stories, the problems of overcoming barriers to understanding and perception between Natives and non-Natives, and the larger questions of how human beings relate to the Earth. Authors interviewed: Jeannette Armstrong, Beth Cuthand, Maria Campbell, Jordan Wheeler, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias, Tomson Highway, Beatrice Culleton, Thomas King, Greg Young-Ing, Anne Acco, Howard Adams, Daniel David Moses, Lee Maracle, Emma LaRocque, Ruby Slipperjack, Joy Asham Fedorick, Basil Johnston, and Rita Joe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references p. (265-276).