Listening to Old Woman speak [electronic resource] : Natives and alterNatives in Canadian literature / Laura Smyth Groening.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780773572225 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0773572228 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 183 p.)
- Publisher: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. Multi-User. Terms of use - CatMonthString:august.17 CatMonthString:jun.14 Includes index. Multi-user. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-183) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : writing "Indians" and the Manichean allegory -- Representation and identification : gender and genre in the first Canadian novel(s) -- "A curiosity ... natural and feminine" : race, class, and gender in the colonial writings of Anna Jameson and Susanna Moodie -- "Poor creatures, once so benighted" : imagining race in early colonial narratives -- Inhabiting a Manicheal world view : colonialism, ideology, and discourse -- Administering/ministering to the Indians : Duncan Campbell Scott and the politics of church and state -- The temptations of Rudy Wiebe : history and postmodern Indians -- "Contamination as literary strategy" : a postcolonial ideal -- "Children of two peoples" : hybrid texts, hybrid people? -- The healing aesthetic of Basil H. Johnston -- Conclusion : finding an appropriate(d) voice. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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