Magic weapons : Aboriginal writers remaking community after residential school

McKegney, Sam 1976- (author.).

Summary: "Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative for presonal 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 Indiginous 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

Record details

ISBN: 9780887557026 (softcover)
ISBN: 0887557023 (softcover)
Physical Description: xviii, 241 pages ; 23 cm
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Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2007]
Copyright: ©2007

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Acculturation through education : the inherent limits of 'assimilationist' policy -- Reading residential school : native literary theory and the survival narrative -- "We have been silent too long" : linguistic play in Anthony Apakark Thrasher's prison writings -- "Analyze, if you wish, but listen" : the affirmatist literary method of Rita Joe -- From trickster poetics to transgressive politics : substantiating survivanace in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the fur queen -- Conclusion : Creative interventions in the residential school legacy.