Title: A really good brown girl
First published: 1996
Description: Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. Here she turns them to opportunities in a voice that is fierce, direct, and true, she explores and transcends the multiple boundaries imposed by society on the self. She mocks, with exasperation and sly humour, the banal exploitation of Indianness, more-Indian-than-thou oneupmanship, and white condescension and ignorance. She celebrates the person, clearly observing, who defines her own life.

These are Indian poems, Canadian poems, human poems.
Subjects: Poetry, Indians of North America, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Métis, Poésie
Places: Canada
LC classification: PR9199.3.D8465 R43 1996