From the iron house: imprisonment in First Nations writing
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1. Verfasser: Rymhs, Deena (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index
Barred subject: Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings -- James Tyman's Inside out: An autobiography by a native Canadian -- Auto/biographical jurisdictions: collaboration, self-representation, and the law in Stolen life: The journey of a Cree woman -- Prison collections and periodicals -- A residential school memoir: Basil Johnston's Indian school days -- It is the law: Disturbing the authoritative word in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the fur queen -- Hated structures and lost talk: Making poetry bear the burden -- Autobiography as containment: Jane Willis's Geniesh: An Indian girlhood
In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading "the carceral"--That is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature. Addressing the work of writers like Tomson Highway and Basil Johnston along with that of lesser-known authors writing in prison serials and underground publications, this book emphasizes the literary and political strategies these authors use to resist the containment of their institutions. Th
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ISBN:1435656326
1554580218
9781435656321
9781554580217

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