Title: Magic Weapons
Description: "The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue in many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings in response to the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi'kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth critical studies of better known life writings by Basil Johnston (Ojibway) and Tomson Highway (Cree).

Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative in their struggles for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow of attempted cultural genocide. By treating Indigenous life writings as carefully crafted aesthetic creations and interrogating their relationship to more overtly politicized historical discourses, Sam McKegney argues that Indigenous life writings [First Nations, Native peoples, Aboriginal peoples] are culturally generative in ways that go beyond disclosure and recompense, re-envisioning what it means to live and write as Indigenous individuals in post-residential-school Canada."--Pub. desc.
Subjects: Canadian literature, indian authors, Canadian literature, history and criticism, Indians of north america, canada, Indians of north america, ethnic identity, Inuit, canada, Indians of north america, education, Canadian literature, Indian authors, History and criticism, Inuit authors, Indians in literature, Inuit in literature, Off-reservation boarding schools, Indians of North America, Ethnic identity, Inuit, Cultural assimilation, Residential schools, Littérature canadienne-anglaise, Auteurs indiens d'Amérique, Histoire et critique, Auteurs inuit, Internats pour Indiens d'Amérique, Internats pour Inuit, Indiens d'Amérique, Identité ethnique, Acculturation