Listening to Old Woman Speak : Natives and AlterNatives in Canadian Literature.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Writing "Indians" and the Manichean Allegory -- 1 Representation and Identification: Gender and Genre in the First Canadian Novel(s) -- 2 "A Curiosity ... Natural and Feminine": Race, Class, and Gender in the Colonial Writings of Anna Jameson and Susanna Moodie -- 3 "Poor Creatures, Once so Benighted": Imagining Race in Early Colonial Narratives -- 4 Inhabiting a Manichean World View: Colonialism, Ideology, and Discourse -- 5 Administering/Ministering to the Indians: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Politics of Church and State -- 6 The Temptations of Rudy Wiebe: History and Postmodern Indians -- 7 "Contamination as Literary Strategy": A Postcolonial Ideal -- 8 "Children of Two Peoples": Hybrid Texts, Hybrid People? -- 9 The Healing Aesthetic of Basil H. Johnston -- Conclusion: Finding an Appropriate(d) Voice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

While Canadian First Nations writers have long argued that non-Native authors should stop appropriating Native voices, many non-Native writers have held that such a request constitutes censorship. "Listening to Old Woman Speak" provides the historical context missing from this debate. Laura Groening examines issues of gender and genre, historical fiction and historical metafiction, and postcolonial theory to provide compelling evidence that it is virtually impossible to escape one's own cultural conditioning. She concludes by "listening" to what First Nations writers have to say about cultural identity and the need to establish a healing aesthetic.

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