Listening to Old Woman speak natives and alternatives in Canadian literature / [electronic resource] :
Laura Smyth Groening.
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
- xvi, 183 p.
- McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 44 .
- McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 44. .
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Indians in literature. Canadian literature--History and criticism.--19th century Canadian literature--History and criticism.--20th century Indians of North America--Ethnic identity. Race in literature.