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• Title:From the iron house : imprisonment in First Nations writing / Deena Rymhs.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rymhs, Deena, 1975-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: YC R96 F76 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Indigenous Peoples--Prisoners
  Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--Impact
  Indigenous Peoples--Authors--History and criticism
  Indigenous Peoples--Literature--History and criticism
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Prisoners' writings, Canadian--History and criticism.
  Imprisonment in literature.
  Canadian literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
  Indians in literature.
  Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
  
• Description:ix, 146 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781554580217
  1554580218
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Genre in the institutional setting of the prison
  1. Barred subject: Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings
  2. James Tyman's Inside Out: An autobiography by a Native Canadian
  3. Auto/biographical jurisdictions: collaboration, self-representation, and the law in Stolen life: The journey of a Cree woman
  4. Prison collections and periodicals
  Pt. II. Genre in the institutional setting of the residential school
  5. A residential school memoir: Basil Johnston's Indian School Days
  6. "It is the law": Disturbing the authoritative word in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen
  7. Hated structures and lost talk: Making poetry bear the burden
  8. Autobiography as containment: Jane Willis's Geniesh: An Indian girlhood.