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Author Groening, Laura Smyth, 1949-

Title Listening to Old Woman speak : Natives and alterNatives in Canadian literature / Laura Smyth Groening.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 183 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 44
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 44.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-183) and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Indians in literature.
Indians in literature.
Canadian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Canadian literature (English) -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Groening, Laura Smyth, 1949- Listening to Old Woman speak. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2006372839
ISBN 9780773572225 (electronic book)
0773572228 (electronic book)
9780773527881
0773527885
0773527893 (paperback)
9780773527898 (paperback)