Listening to Old Woman speak : Natives and alterNatives in Canadian literature /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Groening, Laura, 1949-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004.
Series:	McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 44.
Subjects:	1800-1999 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 literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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Table of 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.