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Listening to Old Woman speak [electronic resource] : natives and alternatives in Canadian literature / Laura Smyth Groening.

By: Groening, Laura Smyth, 1949-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: McGill-Queen's native and northern series: 44.Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004Description: xvi, 183 p.Subject(s): Indians in literature | Canadian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity | Race in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/8971 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-179 ) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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