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Listening to Old Woman Speak by Laura Smyth Groening
Natives and Alternatives in Canadian Literature
An in-depth examination of the historical context missing from the controversy over the appropriation of the Native voice by non-Natives.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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| Author(s) : Laura Smyth Groening | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0773527893 | ISBN-13 : 9780773527898 |
| RRP : £19.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : McGill-Queen's Native & Northern S.
Country Publication : Canada
Publication Date : 15/01/2005
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page Length : 216mm
Page Size : 229mm