Listening to Old Woman Speak Natives and AlterNatives in Canadian Literature 1st Edition by Laura Smyth Groening 0773572228 9780773572225

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ISBN 10: 0773572228 

ISBN 13: 9780773572225

Author: Laura Smyth Groening

Groening argues that what Frantz Fanon terms the “manichean allegory” has shaped European understanding of the New World to such an extent that the image patterns fundamental to the allegory continue to dominate depictions of Native characters. Although a world separated into two categories defined by light and dark, reason and emotion, mind and body, technology and nature, future and past is no longer also characterized as good and evil, revaluing the tropes has not made them disappear. And without their disappearance, good intentions notwithstanding, nonaboriginal Canadian writers will continue to portray Native characters as part of a dead and dying culture. Groening demonstrates that the real issue cannot be about censorship as censorship involves the abrogation of freedom, and the imagination is never truly free.

Table of contents:

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 J

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 Sta

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

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