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A really good brown girl

Dumont, Marilyn. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780919626768 :
  • ISBN: 0919626769 :
  • Physical Description: print
    77 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: London, Ont. : Brick Books, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Poems.
Formatted Contents Note: White Judges -- Memoirs of a Really Good Brown Girl -- Halfbreed Parade -- Red & White -- Squaw Poems -- Helen Betty Osborne -- Blue Ribbon Children -- old fool and a five-year moon -- let the ponies out -- pay wickets -- what more than dance -- beyond recognition -- as if I were their sun -- horse-fly blue -- spineless -- blue sky pokes -- when you walk through my door -- wild berries -- hard bed to lie in -- talking on stone -- recovery -- spring breathing -- breakfast of the spirit -- bowl of smooth brown wood -- you only know after -- my mother's arms -- guilt is an erosion -- not just a platform for my dance -- one day in May -- half human/half devil (halfbreed) muse -- Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald -- Still Unsaved Soul -- Devil's Language -- For Bruce, the Night We Sat Studying Cree -- Circle the Wagons -- Leather and Naughahyde -- It Crosses My Mind -- sound of one hand drumming -- Liquid Prairie -- geese are not welcome -- Installation Piece -- Fireflies -- cimowina -- Instructions to My Mother -- Who Knew the Moons Would Remember -- He Taught Me -- yellow sun days of leaving -- Sky is Promising -- we are made of water.
Subject: First Nations authors.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Merritt Campus PS8557 U53 R4 1996 (Text) 107926 Regular Collection Volume hold Checked out 2023-11-27
Vancouver Campus PR9199.3.D8465 R43 1996 (Text) 227595 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -

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