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    Magic weapons : Aboriginal writers remaking community after residential school / Sam McKegney ; foreword by Basil H. Johnston.

    • Title:Magic weapons : Aboriginal writers remaking community after residential school / Sam McKegney ; foreword by Basil H. Johnston.
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    • Author/Creator:McKegney, Sam, 1976-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Johnston, Basil author of foreward.
      Xwi7xwa Collection
    • Published/Created:Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, ©2007.
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    • FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools.
      Indigenous Peoples--Ethnic identity.
      Indigenous Peoples--Cultural assimilation.
      Indigenous Peoples--Literature--History and criticism.
      Indigenous Peoples--Poetry--History and criticism.
    • Description:xviii, 241 p. ; 23 cm.
    • Summary:"The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and high suicide in many communities. Magic Weapons surveys Indigenous writings in response to the impacts of the residential school system, and provides readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi'kmaq) and Anthony Apakark (Inuit), and critical studies of better known life writings by Basil Johnston (Ojibway) and Tomson Highway (Cree). Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow of attempted cultural genocide. By recognizing these life writings as carefully crafted aesthetic creations and interrogating their relationship to more overtly politicized historical discourses, Sam McKegney argues that Indigenous life writings are culturally generative in ways that go beyond disclosure and recompense, re-envisioning what it means to live and write as Indigenous individuals in post-residential-school Canada." -- Back cover.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-233) and index.
    • ISBN:9780887557026 :
    • Contents:Foreword / Basil H. Johnston
      Acknowledgements and Permissions
      Introduction
      1 / Acculturation through education : the inherent limits of 'assimilationist' policy
      2 / Reading residential school : Native literacy theory and the survival narrative
      3 / "We have been silent too long" : linguistic play in Anthony Apakark Thrasher's prison writings
      4 / "Analyze, if you wish, but listen" : the affirmationist literary methodology of Rita Joe
      5 / From trickster poetics to transgressive politics : substantiating survivance in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen
      Conclusion : creative interventions in the residential school legacy
      Endnotes
      Bibliography
      Index.
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