How Should I Read These? : Native Women Writers in Canada.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (275 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 'Reading from the Inside Out': Jeannette Armstrong's Slash -- 2 'When You Admit You're a Thief': Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths's: The Book of Jessica -- 3 'Listen to the Silence': Ruby Slipperjack's: Honour the Sun -- 4 'Nothing but the Truth': Beatrice Culleton's: In Search of April Raintree -- 5 'And Use the Words That Were Hers': Beverly Hungry Wolf's: The Ways of My Grandmothers -- 6 'Because You Aren't Indian': Lee Maracle's Ravensong -- 7 'How Should I Eat These?' Eden Robinson's: Traplines -- In/conclusion -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Drawing on postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist, and First Nations theory, Hoy raises and addresses questions around 'difference' in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada.
9781442675896
Canadian fiction-Indian authors-History and criticism. Canadian fiction-Women authors-History and criticism. Canadian fiction-20th century-History and criticism.