Review:
Reid carefully conveys gestures, moods, and inflections evident in storytelling, enhancing authenticity. Paddling to Where I Stand deserves a spot in every Canadian library's shelf. -- Carolyn Redl, Integrated Studies Program, Athabasca University * Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. XXXVII, no.2, 2005 * The pleasure of reading Paddling to Where I Stand ... will be found, first, in Reid's interrogation of autobiography and her strategies for ensuring that this story is Agnes Alfred's story, and second, in the successful outcome of these strategies. Agnes Alfred emerges, in her own words, the "extraordinary woman with an extraordinary life" that her granddaughter describes in her funeral elegy. -- Mary Clearman Blew * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, winter 2006 *
About the Author:
Martine J. Reid (editor) is an independent scholar whose interests are in the field of Northwest Coast cultural and aesthetic anthropology. Daisy Sewid-Smith (translator) is Agnes Alfred's granddaughter, a cultural historian, and a Kwakwaka'wakw language instructor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria.
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