Listening to Old Woman speak Natives and alterNatives in Canadian literature

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ISBN: 9780773527898 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0773527893 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0773527885
ISBN: 9780773527881
ISBN: 0773572228 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780773572225 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 183 p.)
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Publisher: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.

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.